Glossary - Agriculture Forestry and Fishing Research at NIOSH - page 198

External factors actions or forces beyond NIOSH's control (for example, by
industry, labor, regulators, and other entities) with important bearing on the in-
corporation in the workplace of NIOSH's outputs to enhance safety and health.

Extramural research research supported by funds from NIOSH to research-
ers and organizations outside NIOSH through a grant, contract, or cooperative
agreement.

Health effects research research that investigates physical, chemical, and biologic
hazards (injuries and exposures, illness, and death).

Hired farm worker persons that are paid to perform duties on a farm.

Farmworker adjective used to describe a noun, such as “farmworker health” or
“farmworker families.”

Farm worker any person (self-employed, unpaid, or paid) that performs tasks

on a farm.

Industrial hygiene the science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and con-
trolling workplace conditions that may cause workers' injury or illness.

Intermediate outcomes related to the research program's association with behav-
iors and changes at individual, group, and organization levels in the workplace. An
assessment of the worth of NIOSH research and its products by outside stakehold-
ers (for example, production of standards or regulations based in whole or in part
on NIOSH research; attendance in training and education programs sponsored by
other organizations; use of publications, technologies, methods, or recommenda-
tions by workers, industry, and occupational safety and health professionals in the
field; and citations of NIOSH research by industry and academic scientists).

Intervention research includes studies in which researchers arrange (or follow)
a systematic change in conditions to determine the effects on a physical capacity,
skill, or performance.

Intramural research research within NIOSH.

Knowledge diffusion the adaptation of knowledge in a broad range of scientific
and engineering research and development.