Summary

The implementation of NORA has been a huge success in its first four years. Those dedicated to NORA and occupational safety and health have produced:

• An enthusiastic and productive, broad-based NORA Liaison Committee.

• Successful efforts of 20 NORA teams, including outreach; conferences and symposia; and production of white papers, documents, and journal articles.

• The participation of a large number of federal agencies in NORA activities.

• A successful grants process which has produced record-breaking funding for targeted occupational safety and health research in Fiscal Years 1998, 1999, and 2000.

• Two surveys (in Fiscal Years 1996 and 1998) of federal occupational safety and health research investment.

• Evidence that a national research agenda was, and continues to be, needed and that NORA research priority areas were well chosen.

• Recognition that NORA continues to be used as a model for public-private partnerships and is being widely used by other organizations in similar planning efforts.

• For the first time, a broad-based network of public and private partnerships in occupational safety and health.