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In June 1998, NIOSH published Traumatic Occupational Injury Research Needs and Priorities, a strategy designed by the NORA Traumatic Injury Team to guide national occupational injury research efforts. Team members assisted with planning the first three National Occupational Injury Research Symposia (NOIRS), which were conducted in 1997, 2000, and 2003. NOIRS 2003, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 28, 29, and 30, 2003 was jointly sponsored by the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the National Safety Council, and Liberty Mutual Research Center. Several other NORA teams, including the Special Populations at Risk Team, the Organization of Work Team, the Social and Economic Consequences of Workplace Illness and Injury Team, and the Intervention Effectiveness Team, have participated in NOIRS by organizing special sessions on crosscutting topics. The Team met in June 2000 in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford and the United Auto Workers (UAW)-Ford National Joint Committee on Health and Safety sponsored this meeting that included a tour of a Ford truck plant and a hands-on demonstration of Ford’s surveillance system. The Team met in November 2000 in Itasca, Illinois, at the National Safety Council (NSC) facility. The primary focus of these meetings was to better understand how a company-level surveillance system can identify hazards and risks, monitor the effectiveness of injury prevention measures, and identify research gaps in existing surveillance systems. The Team also organized and sponsored a special symposium at the National Safety Council Congress, September 24-26, 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. “Making Science Work for You: A Symposium for Safety Professionals.” This symposium focused on the role of science in injury prevention, and on the application of results of injury research in the workplace. The team members, along with industry and labor partners, presented the symposium in a series of six technical sessions over the 3-day period. This forum facilitated dissemination to and interaction with the industry safety community—an important, often difficult-to-reach audience, that can apply research results to prevent injuries in the workplace. The year 2002 was a year of transition and reconstitution of the NORA-TI Team. The team met in conjunction with the NORA Symposium in June 2003 and the NOIRS 2003 in October 2003, and is currently engaged in assessing its accomplishments and impact over the first nine years of NORA, and developing a Team strategy for the second decade of NORA. |
