NIOSH Strategic Goals

NIOSH Program Portfolio Goals

LIST OF GOALS SELECTED:

Sector Programs

Manufacturing

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Reduce the number and severity of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among manufacturing sector workers.

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Provide intervention tools and engineering controls to reduce the number and severity of musculoskeletal disorders among sector workers.

11PPMNFIG3.3

Implement activities that move research into practice to prevent musculoskeletal disorders among manufacturing sector workers.

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Reduce the incidence of injuries, illnesses, and fatalities within small businesses (less than 100 employees) and specific sub-sectors within the manufacturing sector.

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Identify and prioritize occupational safety and health issues within small businesses and specific sub-sectors within the manufacturing sector.

Activity/Output Goal 3.2.3 (10PPMNFAOG3.2.3): Evaluate interventions designed to reduce low back and upper limb MSDs in manufacturing settings. Interventions should include work organization factors, individual job tasks, and personal risk factors. Include both large plants and small businesses in both process and outcome evaluations.

Activity/Output Goal 8.1.1 (10PPMNFAOG8.1.1): Collect, compile, and analyze data and available literature to identify sub-sectors with high risk of injuries/illnesses and fatalities.

Cross-Sector Health Outcome Programs

Musculoskeletal Disorders

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Reduce the incidence of work-related MSDs by implementing practical and effective workplace interventions to reduce MSD risk factors.

11PPMSDIG3.1

Safety professionals in public and private industry implement practical and effective workplace interventions for the prevention or mitigation of MSDs on the basis on the best available scientific evidence.

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Safety professionals, leaders of labor and trade organizations, and leaders in public and private industry advocate comprehensive approaches to safety that address the multi-factorial nature of the development and mitigation of work-related MSDs.

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Reduce the incidence of work-related MSDs on the basis of actionable knowledge of the prevalence, incidence, and severity of work-related MSDs.

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Safety professionals in public and private industry and health and safety workers in government and academia use proven and practical survey tools or methods for ongoing surveillance of work-related MSDs.

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Government, public and private businesses, trade and labor organizations, and academia have access to up-to-data surveillance data on the incidence and prevalence of work-related MSDs at local, state, and national levels and across specific industry sectors and occupations.

Activity/Output Goal 3.1.1 (11PPMSDAOG3.1.1): Conduct rigorous evaluations of engineering, administrative, and behavioral approaches towards safety using randomized controlled trials, interrupted time-series designs, or other scientifically valid approaches.

Activity/Output Goal 3.1.3 (11PPMSDAOG3.1.3): Conduct studies to identify and understand the functions of organizational practices that contribute to the prevailing safety culture of the workplace, and how these practices relate to safety risks.

Activity/Output Goal 3.2.1 (11PPMSDAOG3.2.1): Conduct studies to identify and understand the interactions among physical, environmental, behavior, cognitive, social, organizational, and economic factors that influence the effectiveness of safety programs for the prevention and mitigation of MSDs.

Activity/Output Goal 5.3.2 (11PPMSDAOG5.3.2): Efforts should be directed toward developing county, state, industry or occupation denominators and rates that can be used for comparison purposes.

Cross-Sector Other Programs

Total Worker Health

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Increase the adoption of integrated health protection and health promotion programs and activities to reduce the risk of occupational illness and injury and advance the overall health and well-being of workers.

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Organizations, professional associations, and government agencies committed to work force health will adopt and disseminate information to help employers implement effective practices connecting health protection and health promotion.

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Employers and employee groups, including the public sector work force, will pilot test and/or implement promising or proven workplace policies, practices, and programs that address, coordinate or integrate health protection and promotion.

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Federally-funded workplace health protection and health promotion programs developed to advance the health of all workers, including those in the Federal sector, will adopt, incorporate and advance the policies, programs and practices of Total Worker HealthTM.

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Protect and promote the overall safety, health, and well-being of the workforce through research that investigates the joint effects of work and non-work factors and evaluates interventions that integrate health protection with health promotion.

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Research products from the NIOSH Total Worker HealthTM program are adopted and applied by agencies, associations and organizations for the development of guidance (e.g., a consensus standard), training, policy, and other efforts to create comprehensive workplace programs to prevent worker illness, injury, and disease.