The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Office of Construction Safety and Health, 395 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20201, USA.
J Safety Res. 2010 Jun;41(3):289-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2010.04.002. Epub 2010 May 14.
The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts research to improve and protect the health and safety of workers. This paper describes the experience of the NIOSH Construction Program with two recent program planning initiatives intended to improve the program: (a) an independent external review of work over the past decade and (b) the development of strategic goals organized into a "National Construction Agenda" to guide a decade of future work. These goals, developed with input from construction industry stakeholders and researchers, are a part of the NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) initiative. The NORA goals are intended to provide an ambitious set of goals for all construction stakeholders to work together on. Both efforts relate to insuring the relevance and impact of research, reflecting an emerging policy perspective that research programs should be judged not just by the quality and quantity of science produced, but by the industry impact and tangible benefit resulting from the research. This paper describes how views on research planning have evolved to incorporate lessons learned about how research leads to improved safety and health for workers. It also describes the process used to develop the goals and the resulting strategic and intermediate goals that comprise the National Construction Agenda.
美国职业安全与健康研究所（NIOSH）开展研究工作，以改善和保护工人的健康和安全。本文介绍了 NIOSH 建筑计划在两项旨在改善该计划的近期计划举措方面的经验：(a) 对过去十年工作进行独立的外部审查；(b) 制定战略目标并整合成“国家建筑议程”，以指导未来十年的工作。这些目标是 NIOSH 国家职业研究议程（NORA）倡议的一部分，是在建筑行业利益相关者和研究人员的参与下制定的。这些目标旨在为所有建筑利益相关者提供一个雄心勃勃的目标，共同努力。这两项工作都涉及确保研究的相关性和影响力，反映了一种新兴的政策观点，即不仅要根据研究产生的科学质量和数量来评判研究计划，还要根据研究对行业的影响和产生的实际效益来评判。本文描述了如何调整研究规划的观点，以纳入关于研究如何促进工人安全和健康的经验教训。本文还介绍了制定这些目标的过程以及由此产生的构成国家建筑议程的战略和中间目标。
