NORA - A Model for Partnership

One of the most encouraging testaments to the success of NORA is the number of other organizations using NORA as a model for creating research agendas or other types of partnership and planning. NORA has generated tremendous interest - especially at the federal level - because of its innovative approach to strategic planning. NIOSH has shared its experience with many who have sought to undertake a similar effort. Examples of such planning efforts follow.

International and Foreign National Organizations

• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
  
• Istituto Superiore Per La Prevenzione E La S Curezza Del Lavoro (the Italian Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
  
• Japanese National Institute of Industrial Health
  
• Norwegian National Institute of Occupational Health

• Department of Defense, Deployment Toxicology Research and Development Master Plan
  
• Environmental Protection Agency, Human Health Indoors Project
  
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
  
• National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

• Maine
  
• California
  
• Washington

• The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, Occupational Research Agenda for Northwest Farming
  
• The Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology