Rosenstock L, Olenec C, Wagner G R
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1998 Mar;88(3):353-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.88.3.353.
No single organization has the resources necessary to conduct occupational safety and health research to adequately serve the needs of workers in the United States. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) undertook the task of setting research priorities in response to a broadly perceived need to systematically address those topics most pressing and most likely to yield gains to workers and to the nation.
NIOSH and its public and private partners used a consensus-building process to set priorities for the next decade for occupational safety and health research--the National Occupational Research Agenda.
The process resulted in the identification of 21 research priorities grouped into 3 categories: disease and injury, work environment and workforce, and research tools and approaches.
Although the field of occupational safety and health is often contentious and adversarial, these research priorities reflect a remarkable degree of concurrence among a broad range of stakeholders who provided input into a clearly defined and open process.
没有任何一个单一组织拥有开展职业安全与健康研究所需的资源，以充分满足美国工人的需求。美国国家职业安全与健康研究所（NIOSH）承担了设定研究重点的任务，以回应一种广泛存在的需求，即系统地解决那些对工人和国家最为紧迫且最有可能带来收益的课题。
NIOSH及其公共和私人合作伙伴采用了一种建立共识的过程，为未来十年的职业安全与健康研究设定重点——即国家职业研究议程。
该过程确定了21个研究重点，分为3类：疾病与伤害、工作环境与劳动力、以及研究工具与方法。
尽管职业安全与健康领域常常存在争议和对抗，但这些研究重点反映了众多利益相关者之间达成的显著共识程度，他们为一个明确界定且开放的过程提供了意见。
