Occupational health research at NIOSH

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Stacey E. ; Antonini JM
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the U.S. federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths. The work by NIOSH protects the safety and health of the nation's 155 million workers. NIOSH provides the only dedicated federal investment for research needed to prevent the societal cost of work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses in the United States, estimated in 2007 at $250 billion in medical costs and productivity losses alone. NIOSH produces new scientific knowledge and provides practical solutions vital to reducing risks of injury and death in the workplace. NIOSH scientists design, conduct, and support targeted research, both inside and outside the institute, and support the training of occupational health and safety professionals to meet increasing needs for a new generation of skilled practitioners. The primary goal of this supplement to Environmental Health Insights is to highlight the diversified occupational health and industrial hygiene research program of NIOSH. A group of nine papers that address important research areas of NIOSH have been selected for inclusion in the supplement. The supplement includes manuscripts that describe experimental studies which examine specific workplace problems as well as papers that review the scientific literature related to emerging issues in occupational health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Environmental Health Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Disease-prevention Environmental-health Industrial-hygiene Injury-prevention Medical-research Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Safety-education Safety-research Work-environment Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1178-6302
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  97-98
• Volume:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045874
• Citation:
  Environ Health Insights 2015 Mar; 9(Suppl 1):97-98
• Email:
  jga6@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Environmental Health Insights
• Supplement:
  1
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c761a92545c16f9818c80329eabf91d06844d8ddd10676d0b696adc925dcf4ca18104eead28dd869faadd07a9aba78234ed913a36d50210c0bc2b0ffbb18e29
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201124/cdc_201124_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 356.62 KB ]