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The National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH) will host the fourth National Occupational Injury
Research Symposium (NOIRS) on October 21, 22, & 23, 2008 at
the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NOIRS
is the only forum for the presentation of occupational injury research
findings, data, and methods.
This symposium serves numerous objectives aimed
at preventing traumatic occupational injury through research and
prevention. They include:
- Presenting current research findings.
- Fostering collaboration among researchers from a broad
range of disciplines and perspectives, and exploring underutilized
disciplines and topic areas.
- Identifying best practices in the area of intervention evaluation.
- Exploring the cost-effectiveness of injury prevention strategies
and interventions.
- Showcasing innovative and high technology approaches to
research and prevention.
- Continuing to promote the implementation of NORA.
Questions that will be addressed include:
- What are the latest traumatic occupational injury research
findings?
- What are emerging problem areas in workplace trauma?
- How is prevention through design being applied to occupational injury
research and prevention?
- What activities are being done to implement research to practice in the
area of traumatic occupational injury?
- What are the best practice intervention and prevention
strategies and which strategies do not work? In what specific
workplaces and under what circumstances?
- What are the economic costs of traumatic occupational injuries
and how cost-effective are the prevention strategies?
- What are current and emerging research areas and disciplines?
- What are the trends in traumatic occupational injury and
fatality incidence? In research tools, techniques, and methods?
In prevention?
- What specific workplace risks are faced by adolescents,
older adults, minority workers, non-English-speaking workers,
low-literacy workers, and other special populations?
- How can researchers and practitioners in different sectors
and disciplines better collaborate and coordinate their activities
to reduce traumatic occupational injuries?
- What methods are available to assess, quantify, and compare
traumatic occupational injury risks?
If you are seeking answers to these or other questions
related to traumatic occupational injury research and prevention,
you should plan to attend the 2008 Symposium October 21, 22 &
23, 2008.
Occupational injury researchers from all
disciplines are invited to attend and share their research. We
encourage participation by all interested individuals, including:
- Safety researchers
- Safety practitioners
- Health care professionals
- Administrators
- Epidemiologists
- Engineers
- Manufacturers
- Communication Researchers
- Health and science communicators
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- Regulators
- Employers
- Policy makers
- Insurers
- Students
- Advocates
- Workers
- Educators and trainers
- Others interested in attending
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The symposium will consist of contributed oral presentations
in concurrent sessions and a poster session. Be sure to bookmark this page, and visit it periodically
to keep up to date as the Symposium program evolves.
Page last updated: November 29, 2007
Page last reviewed: March 18, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
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