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The Organization of Work Team has met on a regular basis since 1998 to consider the changing nature of work, potential health and safety risks, and prevention strategies. In 1999 the team participated in many activities to better understand knowledge gaps and research needs. It held an outreach workshop with key interest groups in Baltimore, Maryland where team members met with representatives from national and international stakeholder organizations to discuss three topics: 1) how the organization of work is changing, 2) safety and health implications of these changes, and 3) interventions for reducing safety and health risks. Information from this meeting is being integrated into a strategic report on work organization and health research needs. Also in 1999, the team sponsored (with the American Psychological Association) an international scientific conference on work organization and health. Team members delivered technical presentations on safety and health concerns in the changing organizational environment at meetings of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), the Academy of Management, and the American Public Health Association (APHA). In 2000, the team began planning for Federal interagency partnerships to 1) improve surveillance and data collection for research priority setting relating to changing work organization and safety and health consequences, and 2) combine efforts and leverage funding to support research on this topic. In this regard, team members were instrumental in developing a NIOSH extramural program announcement in FY 2001 for research on long hours of work and safety and health. At the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium (NOIRS), 2000, the team organized the first-ever scientific session on work organization and injury. Publication of a team report in a major peer-review journal is anticipated in 2001, and the team will co-sponsor an international meeting on work organization and health in 2003. |
