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CDC: Occupational Safety and Health

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the lead Federal agency for research on the occupational health of U.S. workers. It conducts and supports research, responds to investigation requests, supports training and disseminates findings to inform worker safety programs and regulations.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program works to address and prevent occupational hazards that result in disabling injuries, disease and/or death. It is well managed overall, but has lacked strong performance measures to evaluate its impact on reducing workplace illness and injuries.
  • It has a well-established mechanism for setting priorities to guide budget requests and funding decisions. Starting with a base of $15 million in 1996, the program has targeted an increasing amount of its research investments through the National Occupational Research Agenda. This year, the program will invest up to $99 million in 21 priority areas of research.
  • The program adopted new long-term measures that will help better capture the outcome of the program on occupational safety, illness and death.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Tracking performance on the percent of firefighters/first responders with access to respirators and reductions in respirable coal dust overexposure and road construction fatalities and injuries.
  • Establishing standard methods to measure the impact on the occupational safety and health field in collaboration with the National Academies; these criteria are used to review NIOSH research programs.
  • Using performance information from its research efforts to help improve program direction, allocate resources and develop annual budgets.

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