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This report provides the lessons learned in the evaluation process, a revised evaluation framework, and the following recommendations for evaluating occupational health and safety research programs: continue systematic ex ternal evaluations, bolster research translation efforts, enhance occupational health and safety surveillance, and integrate evaluations of intramural and extramural research. P reventing tractor rollovers on farmers, protecting construction workers from falls, improving the health of miners in dusty environments, reducing back injuries in nursing aides, developing substitute materials to eliminate hazardous chemical exposures, and designing work conditions to reduce fatigue and stress are among the issues critical to improving worker safety and health.
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In September 2004, NIOSH contracted with The National Academies to con duct a series of evaluations of individual NIOSH research programs. This set of in dependent evaluations focused on the relevance and impact of each of eight NIOSH programs on reducing work-related injuries, illnesses, and hazardous exposures.
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developed for the evaluation of the NIOSH research programs provides criteria for assessing each component of the logic model. As requested by NIOSH, the charge to the National Academies included scoring each program (using integer rating scales of 1 to 5)
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3 = esearch is in high-priority subject areas, but the NIOSH program is not engaged in R appropriate transfer activities; or research is in priority subject areas but the NIOSH program is not significantly engaged in appropriate transfer activities; or research focuses on lesser priorities but the NIOSH program is significantly engaged in ap propriate transfer activities. 2 = esearch program is focused on lesser priorities and the NIOSH program is not sig R nificantly engaged in appropriate transfer activities.
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DATA FOR THE EVALUATION PROCESS NIOSH provided detailed evidence packages to each evaluation committee with information on the program including program descriptions, staffing levels, program goals and objectives, and details on the program and its accomplishments. Although the evidence package was the core input to each evaluation, it was one of many sources of information that the evaluation committees assessed.
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These recommendations may also be informative for other federal agency program evaluations. Ongoing Evaluation Evaluation of research programs at regular intervals has become the norm, with the trend toward internal management reviews supplemented by periodic evaluation by external parties.
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Program or agency-wide evaluations should begin with strong self-evaluation ef forts that allow the program or agency to assemble and analyze data and act on relevant findings concerning the program's strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. Continue to Bolster Research Translation Efforts From the perspective of NIOSH, research transfer or translation can be seen to encompass activities that staff and researchers engage in to increase the likelihood that results of research will be used to improve worker safety and health as well as studies of research translation conducted or funded to increase knowledge about which approaches are most effective.
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Surveillance data are also critical program inputs, and the extent to which research programs have considered surveillance data in setting research priorities is an important determinant of program relevance. Although a comprehensive system for tracking fatal occupational injuries in the United States is in place, the current approaches to surveillance of occupational illnesses and nonfatal occupa tional injuries are fragmented and incomplete, and only limited surveillance data on exposure to hazards are available.
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Recommendation 3 Increase and Improve Surveillance to Benchmark Progress NIOSH should increase and improve surveillance of work-related injuries, illnesses, expo sures, and working conditions so that information needed to assess program relevance and impact will be available for future evaluations. Enhanced surveillance should prove informative in balancing research priorities.
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