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Welcome to the NORA 2008: Public Market for Ideas and Partnerships
VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM

The Virtual Symposium will be open July 30 through August 12, 2008. The Virtual Symposium provides an open forum to facilitate effective communication about the importance of past and future work and opportunities for collaboration and partnerships to achieve impact in the workplace. In the virtual symposium you can

• View a video of former NIOSH director, John Howard's key note speech
• Learn about the 2008 NORA Innovative Research Award for Worker Health and Safety and NORA Partnering Award winners
• Make a public comment on the poster presentations and interact with the authors.

Welcome

Lee S. Newman, MD, MA
Director, NIOSH Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center

Christine Branche, Ph D
Acting Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Keynote Address

NORA at Twelve: Transcultural Occupational Safety and Health
John Howard, MD, MPH,
Former Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Video to be posted 7/30

NORA Liaison Committee Awards Presentation: Update from the 2006 Winners

2006 National Occupational Research Agenda Innovative Research Award
Reducing the Impact of Green Tobacco Sickness among Latino Farmworkers
Thomas A. Arcury, PhD
Professor and Research Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine. Wake Forest University School of Medicine

2006 National Occupational Research Agenda Partnering Awards for Worker Health and Safety Slip, Trip, and Fall Prevention in Health Care Workers
Jim Collins, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Science, Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Collaborative Partnerships and Products of the NIOSH Hazardous Drug Working Group
Melissa A. McDiarmid, MD, MPH, DABT
Professor of Medicine and Director, University of Maryland, Occupational Health Program

NORA Liaison Committee 2008 Awards Presentation

Bonnie Rogers DrPh
Chair, NORA Liaison Committee

Go to the Awards Page

Sector Workshops

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

Construction

Healthcare and Social Assistance

Manufacturing

Services/Public Safety

Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities

Wholesale and Retail Trade

Comment on Posters

Click on a poster title to review the poster and submit your comments and/or discuss the poster with the author.

List of Posters by Number

• 001 Declining Health Insurance Access Among US Workers: Not all Jobs are Created Equal
• 002 The Effect of Perceived Stress of Military Aeromedical Crewmembers on Individual and Team Performance
• 003 Work Stress: Societal Costs and Organizational Components
• 004 Moderators in the Relationship Between Occupational Emotional Labor and Burnout
• 005 The Use of Workers’ Compensation Data to Investigate Tractor-Related Injuries in Agriculture
• 006 The Use of Workers’ Compensation Data to Investigate Livestock-Handling Injuries in Agriculture
• 007 Hearing Difficulty Attributable to Employment by Industry and Occupation: United States, 1997-2003
• 008 Intervention Devices for Overhead Drilling: Looking for Other Applications
• 009 Ventilation Standard Development for Confined-space Manure Pits
• 010 Towards Improved Thin Profile Sensor Technologies For Field-Based Grip Force Exposure Assessment
• 011 Influence Of Perceived Stress On Glycemic Levels In City Police Officers
• 012 Leveraging Occupational Epidemiology and Biomechanics to Reduce Workplace Injury and Illness
• 013 Development of Non-invasive Sensors to Detect Pesticides in Saliva
• 014 Preventing Fatalities due to Falls Overboard: Evaluating Personal Flotation Devices
• 015 Project Safe Talk: Safety Communication Training for Construction Workers
• 016 Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Research: Ten Years of Progress
• 017 Targeting High Risk Tasks in Residential Construction
• 018 Fall Prevention Interventions in Residential Construction
• 019 Getting the Word Out: Evaluation of the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program
• 020 NIOSH Injury Intervention Evaluation Research: Industry Partnerships
• 021 Companion Guardrail: New Fall Arrest Device for Mobile Scaffolds Under Ten Feet
• 022 Health Effects of Power Relations and Abusive Supervision among Latino Poultry Processing Workers
• 023 NIOSH Agricultural Centers - National Agricultural Tractor Safety Initiative
• 024 Hazardous Drug Exposures to Health Care Workers
• 025 Filling the Information Gap with NIOSH National Occupational Mortality Surveillance (NOMS II) Data
• 026 A Proposed National Health Interview Survey Supplement for Occupational Health Surveillance
• 027 Field Evaluation of an Ergonomically Designed Hand Tool
• 028 Training in Prevention of Workplace Violence for Small Businesses
• 029 Protecting Workers from Falling from Unguarded Edges with an Innovative Guardrail System
• 030 Washington State Trucking Injury Reduction Emphasis (TIRES) Program
• 031 The Relationship of Workers’ Compensation Costs to Other Employer Health and Productivity Costs
• 032 Dirty Doffing Evaluation: Improving Continuity of Protection Through Decontamination and Doffing
• 033 Safety Discrimination and Demonstration Following Training of One or Two Stimulus Classes
• 034 Use of Blunt-Tip Suture Needles to Decrease Percutaneous Injuries to Surgical Personnel
• 035 Developing Effective Training Materials for the Oil and Gas Extraction Industry
• 036 Longitudinal Assessment of Pulmonary Function Among Flavor Industry Workers
• 037 Occupational Disease and Mortality in US Manufacturing Industry Workers
• 038 Mobile Learning Trials in Occupational Safety and Health Topics and Applications
• 039 What Do Occupational Preventive Medicine Physicians Actually Do?
• 040 Widespread Personal Respiratory Protection (Respirators) for Epidemic and Terrorism Concerns
• 041 NIOSH's Emergency Preparedness and Response Strategic Goals for Research
• 042 NIOSH WorkLife Initiative: Protecting and Promoting Worker Health through Comprehensive Work-Based Programs and Policies
• 043 NIOSH DBIS News Videos
• 044 Safe-In-Sound Award. A Partnership to Identify and Promote Excellence and Innovation in Hearing Loss Prevention
• 045 Ladder “Add-Ons” to Improve Worker Safety: Safe Last Step and Modified Third Leg

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