Burden, Need and Impact: An Evidence-Based Method to Identify Worker Safety and Health Research Priorities

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• Personal Author:
  Felknor, Sarah A. ; Howard J ; Pana-Cryan, Rene ; Schnorr, Teresa M. ; Schulte, Paul A.
• Description:
  The importance of research and recommendations to address workforce safety and health derives from the continuing toll from worker fatalities, injuries, and illnesses. Estimates of the societal cost of work-related fatalities, injuries, and illnesses range up to $2.2 trillion in the USA from 2007 to 2015, which may be an underestimate of total societal costs. The ongoing changes in the nature of work, the workforce, and the workplace in the USA challenge old paradigms of worker safety and health research and require new decision criteria that are more solution oriented than observational and that result in interventions that can be readily applied to new occupational hazards and exposures. As public funding for science research programs becomes more constrained, and the demand for increased accountability of government spending grows, the need to demonstrate the impact or return on taxpayers' investment becomes a necessity for research agencies. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has developed an evidence-based method that uses the criteria of 'burden', 'need', and 'impact' to identify research priorities and aid in the evaluation of the taxpayers' investment in research. This approach, named the BNI method, may be useful to other public and private sector research agencies or entities that need a systematic way to set research priorities and allocate increasingly scarce resources for research while ensuring the maximal return on investment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Economics Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Analytical Methods Cost Estimates Costs Decision Making Diseases Economic Impact Emerging Technology Fatalities Injuries Intervention Medical Research Occupational Exposure Occupational Hazards Occupational Safety And Health Return On Investment ROI Safety Research Socioeconomics Worker Health Worker Safety

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• ISSN:
  2398-7308
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Georgia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director ; EID - Education and Information Division ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  375-385
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055272
• Citation:
  Ann Work Expo Health 2019 May; 63(4):375-385
• Contact Point Address:
  Sarah A. Felknor, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Office of the Director, Atlanta GA 30333, USA
• Email:
  sbf5@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of Work Exposures and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217613/cdc_217613_DS1.pdf
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