National Occupational Injury Research Symposium

NOTE: This document is provided for historical purposes only.

NOIRS Symposium / Morgantown, WV / October 1997

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in association with its public and private sector partners, hosted the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium on October 15, 16, and 17, 1997 at the Appalachian Laboratories for Occupational Safety and Health in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Dr. Linda Rosenstock, NIOSH Director, welcomes nearly 300 NOIRS attendees at the opening session		Susan Baker of John Hopkins University was a keynote speaker		David Herbert of the National Safety Council also delivered a keynote address

NOIRS Final Agenda, Abstracts, and List of Pre-Registered Participants

Copies of the NOIRS Final Agenda, the NOIRS Abstracts, and the List of Pre-Registered Participants are available for viewing. The agenda details the activities, sessions, and poster presentations for the three days of the symposium. Abstracts give details of all the presentations and posters at the symposium. To go to a directory page covering these documents, click on the following graphics.

Questions addressed at the symposium included:

• What are the latest traumatic occupational injury research findings?
• What are emerging problem areas in workplace trauma?
• How is high technology being applied to occupational injury research and prevention?
• Which interventions and prevention strategies do and do not work? In what specific workplaces and under what circumstances?
• What are the economic costs of occupational injuries and how cost-effective are the prevention strategies?
• What are current and emerging research areas and disciplines?
• What are the trends in occupational injury and fatality incidence? In research tools, techniques, and methods? In prevention?
• What specific workplace risks are faced by children and 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 collaborate and coordinate their activities to reduce traumatic occupational injuries?
• What methods are available to assess, quantify, and compare traumatic occupational injury risks?

About 300 people attended the opening plenary session on Wednesday, Oct. 15

Occupational injury researchers from all disciplines attended and shared their research. Participants included:

The NOIRS symposium is a means of implementing the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for traumatic occupational injuries. NORA was formulated through the cooperative efforts of business, labor, academic, safety and health, and government leaders under the sponsorship of NIOSH.

Future Events

The National Occupational Injury Research Symposium (NOIRS) 2000 will be held on October 17-19, 2000 in Pittsburgh, PA.  Anyone interested in the second symposium can visit our NOIRS 2000 Site to gain more information about this upcoming event.

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