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(5) Outreach—reduce injuries and illnesses by informing and educating employers and employees
about occupational safety and health hazards and control systems.
We would be very grateful for your comments on any or all of these areas. It would be valuable
for the committee to know whether you are familiar with NIOSH activities and products related to
agriculture, forestry, and fishing safety and health and what kind of experience you may have had
working with the agency or its products. The committee would be particularly interested in comments
you may have on the relevance and impact of NIOSH's work in agriculture, forestry, and fishing safety
and health over the past 10 years in any of the five areas of research it has defined.
In addition, we would value your views on two other matters included in the committee's charge.
First, what have you seen as the major research needs and challenges over the past 10 years in ag-
riculture, forestry, and fishing safety and health? Second, what do you see as significant emerging
research needs or opportunities concerning agriculture, forestry, and fishing safety and health?
The committee will review the comments it receives at its remaining meeting, which will be held
on May 30-31, 2007. We encourage you to submit your comments in time for consideration at the
May meeting. You are welcome to comment as an interested individual or from the perspective of your
organization. In addition, please feel free to share this letter with other individuals or organizations
with an interest in the AFF safety and health research program.
Please provide your comments through our National Academies staff, using any of a variety of
routes: e-mail, mail, fax, telephone, or through our web-based comment form, where providing name
and affiliation is optional. However, note that any written comments submitted to the committee
(whether by mail, e-mail, fax, or the project's comment form) will be included in the study's public
access file.
If you have any questions about contacting the committee or providing materials for the com-
mittee's consideration, I encourage you to speak with our study director Peggy Tsai. Contact details
are provided at the end of this letter.
Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide to our study committee as we conduct
our review of the NIOSH AFF Safety and Health Research Program.
Sincerely,
Paul Gunderson, Ph.D.
Chair, Committee to Review the NIOSH Agriculture,
Forestry, and Fishing Research Program
Submitting Comments to the Study Committee
Mail:
Peggy Tsai
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
500 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001