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NIOSH Programs > Transportation, Warehousing, & Utilities > Global Collaborations in TWU >Collaborations with Global Partners
Global Collaborations in Transportation, Warehousing and UtilitiesActivities: NIOSH Collaborations with Global PartnersThe Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres in Occupational HealthNIOSH has been a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (WHO) and simultaneously of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Americas Region of the WHO, since 1976. The Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health assists WHO in carrying out its global strategy on occupational health for all. The WHO Global Network includes the active participation of 64 collaborating occupational health centers on all continents, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and three international non-governmental organizations (NGOs): the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA), and the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). NIOSH chairs the WHO Global Network. Dr. Marilyn Fingerhut serves as Co-Coordinator of the Global Network along with Dr. Evelyn Kortum, WHO Focal Point for Occupational Health. NIOSH Transportation InitiativeThis project supports the NIOSH Transportation Initiative, which coordinates NIOSH-wide activities aimed at reducing motor vehicle crashes (the leading cause of traumatic occupational fatalities) and improving the safety and health of workers in the transportation industry. Major objectives are to: (1) sustain collaborations with partners in the transportation research community; (2) advance collaborations with international partners in the area of global road safety; (3) conduct strategic planning and maintain Web resources for the NIOSH program in the Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities (TWU) sector; and (4) coordinate NIOSH research related to truck driver safety and health. Project contact: Kara Perritt Global Road Safety Week
April 23-29, 2007 marked the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week. According to a 2005 report from the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries will be the eighth leading contributor to the global burden of disease by the year 2030. Government agencies, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector are working together to communicate the problem, collaborate internationally, and share best practices. Global Road Safety Week activities served to raise awareness around the globe about road traffic injuries. In Geneva, Switzerland, observance of Global Road Safety Week featured a World Youth Assembly emphasizing teen drivers and a UN Stakeholders’ Forum at which NIOSH was represented. Promotion of occupational road safety is an important element of international efforts to combat road traffic injuries. Unlike other work environments, the roadway is an open setting where external forces affect the safety of the occupational driver, and the presence of the worker can, in turn, influence the safety of the public. In U.S. and other high-income nations, the conflict between work vehicles and the public often takes the form of a collision involving a truck and a passenger vehicle. In the developing world, work vehicles likely contribute to the toll of pedestrian fatalities. World Health Organization Toolkit for materials relating to Global Road Safety Week World Health Day 2004: “Road Safety is No Accident”
NIOSH worked with other Federal agencies to coordinate U.S. activities in commemoration of World Health Day 2004, serving on the Interagency Planning Committee with partners such as the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of State, and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Global Health Affairs. NIOSH contributed data and key points on occupational road safety for inclusion in the World Health Organization's World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, which was released to coincide with World Health Day.  This site contains documents in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the file. If you do not have the Acrobat Reader, you may download a free copy from the Adobe Web site.
NIOSH worked with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and other partners to coordinate worker safety activities associated with World Health Day 2004. A press event held at PAHO headquarters on April 12, 2004, Occupational Road Safety: Local Strategies for a Global Problem, highlighted the importance of occupation within the broader road safety context. Marilyn Fingerhut, Ph.D., NIOSH International Coordinator, delivered opening remarks at the event, and Stephanie Pratt of the Division of Safety Research participated in a panel that also included Maureen Shaw of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association (Canada), Kathy Lusby-Treber of the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety, and Chuck Hurley of the National Safety Council. NIOSH also developed two fact sheets on occupational road safety that were released on World Health Day in both English and Spanish, and provided other related NIOSH documents to attendees and for distribution to PAHO member Nations.
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