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the OSHAct purposes, and assisting the Secretary of Labor regarding education
programs for employees and employers in hazard recognition and control.
The NIOSH mission is “to provide national and world leadership to prevent
work-related illness, injury, disability, and death by gathering information, con-
ducting scientific research, and translating the knowledge gained into products
and services”. To fulfill its mission, NIOSH has established the following strategic
goals: 2

• Goal 1: Conduct research to reduce work-related illnesses and

injuries.

♦ Track work-related hazards, exposures, illnesses, and injuries for

prevention.

♦ Generate new knowledge through intramural and extramural re-

search programs.

♦ Develop innovative solutions for difficult-to-solve problems in

high-risk industrial sectors.

• Goal 2: Promote safe and healthy workplaces through interventions,

recommendations, and capacity-building.

♦ Enhance the relevance and utility of recommendations and

guidance.

♦ Transfer research findings, technologies, and information into

practice.

♦ Build capacity to address traditional and emerging hazards.

• Goal 3: Enhance global workplace safety and health through inter-

national collaborations.

♦ Take a leadership role in developing a global network of occupa-

tional health centers.

♦ Investigate alternative approaches to workplace illness and injury

reduction and provide technical assistance to put solutions in
place.

♦ Build global professional capacity to address workplace hazards

through training, information sharing, and research experience.

In 1994, NIOSH embarked on a national partnership effort to identify research
priorities to guide occupational health and safety research for the next decade.
The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) identified 21 high-priority
research areas (see Table 1). NORA was intended not only for NIOSH but for the
entire occupational health community. Approaching the 10-year anniversary of

2 See also http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/strategic/ .