Traumatic Injury Research at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2009) / Chapter Skim
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3 Targeting of New Research and Identification of Emerging Research Needs
3 Targeting of New Research and Identification of Emerging Research Needs
Pages 111-126
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THE TI RESEARCH PROGRAM'S PROCESS FOR TARGETING NEW RESEARCH AND IDENTIFYING EMERGING RESEARCH NEEDS The following descriptions of the TI Research Program's process for research project planning and resource allocation and identification of emerging research needs come primarily from the evidence package provided to the committee. The majority of the information relates to intramural research, because the committee did not have available much information on how NIOSH or the TI Research Program develops research priorities for extramural research.
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There has not been competition for new projects with DSR base funds for the past 3 years. Extramural researchers may request NIOSH funding for TI research through NIOSH general program announcements, targeted requests for applications (RFAs) developed by the TI Research Program aimed at filling specific program gaps, and This description does not include project planning and resource allocation for mining TI research, which is managed by the separate NIOSH Mining Safety and Health Research Program.
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that have broad stakeholder vested interest and/or are potentially controversial. The TI Research Program also organizes and hosts periodic National Occupational Injury Research Symposia (NOIRS) , which bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines to discuss research in progress and to form research and prevention partnerships.
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Identification of emerging research needs also comes from TI Research Program engagement with stakeholders and partners. The series of NOIRS organized by the TI Research Program provide staff the opportunity to learn of emerging issues in traumatic injury research as well as adapt partnerships to address them (NIOSH, 2007a, p.
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Research program external review sometimes includes a public meeting announced in the Federal Register. Additional strategies for gaining input from nonresearch groups -- such as employers and employees -- for both research project planning and identification of emerging issues should be considered as well.
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reduce occupational injuries and deaths among high-risk and vulnerable worker groups. Within each of the five strategic goals are three or four subgoals that generally identify types of injuries, worker populations, industries, and workplace exposures on which to focus. At the next level are intermediate goals for achieving goal and subgoal objectives (see Box 3-1 for the goals and subgoals.
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educe workplace violence among high-risk wholesale and retail trade workers R including grocery stores, gasoline stations, convenience stores, bakeries, and liquor stores 3.3. dentify risk factors and effective interventions to prevent workplace violence I among high-risk services, healthcare, and social service sector workers such as eating and drinking establishment workers; hotel or motel workers; automotive repair mechanics; teachers; nurses and nursing assistants in general medical, home health care, nursing homes, and psychiatric hospitals; social service workers in job training, residential care, and day care industries; private security workers; and public safety and correctional workers in emergency response tasks (e.g., medical services, police calls, and correctional officer activities)
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Among the strategic goals are several intermediate goals for leveraging partnerships that, if carried out, could help the TI Research Program a great deal in maximizing impact. In certain areas (specifically, in the future goals for motor vehicles)
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As discussed below, however, the committee does believe that the TI Research Program could contribute to research and intervention on the occupational aspects of short-haul trucking. Subgoal 2.4 -- to reduce occupational road traffic injuries worldwide -- is a strategic goal of the NIOSH Global Collaborations Program in TWU.
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Other areas of potential opportunity for high-impact research include parking lot and rest area traumatic injuries related to short-haul trucking and intrastate driving. Strategic Goal 3: Reduce Occupational Injuries and Deaths Due to Workplace Violence The activities outlined in the future goals for workplace violence demonstrate good research program transitioning -- beginning with surveillance and identifica tion of risk factors -- and moving into design and implementation of interventions where needed.
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and domestic violence in the workplace to be important areas of research for NIOSH, but they may be best addressed within the NIOSH Work Organization and Stress-Related Disorders Program, rather than the TI Research Program. Strategic Goal 4: Reduce Occupational Injuries and Deaths Due to Machines and Industrial Vehicles This strategic goal includes plans to complete testing and market development of the auto-deploying rollover protective structure (AutoROPS)
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The strategic goals (intermediate goals 5.2.2, 5.3.2, 5.4.2) include identification of risk factors for injury and death among older workers and among minority and immigrant workers.
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One area of current TI Research Program research that is not reflected in the strategic goals for the future is research on acute back injuries. According to TI Research Program staff, work on acute back injury will be moved out of the TI Research Program and into the NIOSH Musculoskeletal Disorders Research Program.
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Other Gaps in Traumatic Injury Research In addition to gaps in research noted within the context of the five strategic goals, the committee identified other priority research areas that the TI Research Program could pursue in the future. Without attempting to convey a complete roster of additional research needs, the committee offers five illustrative areas that warrant attention in the future: 1.
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Surveillance research is needed to determine the extent and types of injuries that occur in SMEs, particularly nonfatal injuries for which reporting has been a problem. Findings from such research would help provide the basis for determination of whether and how injuries that occur in SMEs differ from those that occur in larger enterprises and could inform SME-targeted risk factor and cost-sensitive intervention research as well as evidence-based best practices for SMEs that seek to reduce their work-related risks and costs.
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. TI strategic goals for the future.
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