The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is conducting a public review of the NIOSH draft document entitled Prevention through Design Plan for the National Initiative NIOSH Docket Number NIOSH-160. This document has been determined by NIOSH to be a technical report document, in accordance with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines under the Federal Data Quality Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-554, Section 1(a)(3)[515]). The overall goal of the review is to enhance the quality and credibility of Agency recommendations by ensuring that the scientific and technical work underlying these recommendations receives appropriate public review. This guidance document does not have the force and effect of law.

Summary

NIOSH has developed draft goals, performance measures, activities and timeframes, based on stakeholder input, to achieve the mission of preventing occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities through the inclusion of prevention principles in all designs that impact workers. These goals are included in the draft Prevention through Design Plan for the National Initiative.

NIOSH invites stakeholders to review the draft Prevention through Design Plan for the National Initiative, offer comments, and identify areas where stakeholders can make an impact, either within their business or organization, or on behalf of the National Initiative. NIOSH is interested in stakeholder opinions about the relevance of the goals and the value of the activities to achieve the goals in the draft Plan. NIOSH is also interested in identifying motivators, enablers and barriers to PtD implementation. In addition, NIOSH is interested in elements of the Plan stakeholders are planning to implement or have already implemented as well as the success of those implementation efforts.

DRAFT Technical Report: Prevention through Design Plan for the National Initiative	DraftNIOSHPtDplan.pdf (871kb; 54 pages)
DRAFT NIOSH Prevention through Design Sector Strategic Goals - Interactive Goals List
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Public Comment Period

Written comments on the document will be accepted from May 22, 2009 through August 22, 2009 in accordance with the instructions below. All material submitted to NIOSH should reference Docket Number NIOSH-160. All electronic comments should be formatted as Microsoft Word and make reference to docket number NIOSH-160.

Comments will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. ET on August 22, 2009

To submit comments regarding this draft publication, please use one of these options:

• Send NIOSH comments using this online form
  
  
• Send comments by email.
  
  
• Fax comments to the NIOSH Docket Office: 513-533-8285
  
  
• Send by Mail to:
  NIOSH Mailstop: C-34
  Robert A. Taft Lab.
  4676 Columbia Parkway
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45226

NIOSH Draft Documents for Public Review