The implementation of NORA has been a huge success in its first three 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 and 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 both FY 98 and FY 99.
• Two surveys (FY 96 and FY 98) 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.

This page was last updated: May 24, 1999