Traumatic Injury Prevention Program
The Traumatic Injury Prevention Program (TIP) aims to reduce and prevent work-related injury and death, across all industries, due to acute trauma or violence. To do this, we work closely with partners from industry, labor, trade associations, professional organizations, other government agencies, and academia. Our partnerships and research enable us to address the human and economic burden imposed by the leading causes of work-related traumatic injuries, especially among high risk jobs and vulnerable worker groups.
Limiting Workplace Violence Associated with COVID-19 Prevention Policies in Retail and Services Businesses
This webpage offers strategies to limit violence towards workers that may occur when businesses put in place policies and practices to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 among employees and customers. These policies may include requiring masks to be worn by employees and customers, asking customers to follow social distancing rules, and setting limits on the number of customers allowed in a business facility at one time.
The Traumatic Injury Prevention Program is committed to the development of practical solutions to address the complex problems that cause traumatic injuries and deaths among workers including falls, on-the-job motor vehicle crashes, workplace violence, and the use of machines and industrial vehicles to perform work duties. The program also focuses on identifying and evaluating ways to reduce traumatic injuries among high-risk jobs and vulnerable worker groups and addressing emerging issues such as robotics and drug overdoses in the workplace.
The Traumatic Injury Prevention Program has selected research priorities on the basis of burden, need, and impact and collaborated with other NIOSH research programs to write research goals included in the NIOSH Strategic Plan for FYs 2019-2023. The priority areas of traumatic injury research include:
- Preventing fatal and nonfatal injuries among high risk workers in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing sector including falls, machine-related incidents, and falls overboard fishing vessels
- Preventing fatal and non-fatal injuries among Construction workers, including falls from elevation and on the same level, injuries related to emerging technology such as robotics and exoskeletons, and injuries and risk factors for opioid, illicit drugs and substance misuse
- Preventing violence and injury caused by patients among Healthcare and Social Assistance workers
- Preventing injuries related to human-machine interaction among Manufacturing workers
- Preventing injuries among Mining workers such as striking incidents in confined spaces, injuries from high wall failures, fire and explosion associated injuries, the effect of heat strain due to excessive heat exposure, and slips, trips, and falls
- Preventing motor vehicle crashes among Oil and Gas Extraction workers
- Preventing injuries among Public Safety workers such as motor vehicle collisions, workplace violence including assault, and unintentional occupational exposure to illicit drugs
- Reducing falls on the same level and to a lower level among Services workers
- Reducing transportation and machine-related incidents and related injuries among Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities workers
- Preventing injuries due to falls and motor vehicle crashes among workers in the Wholesale and Retail Trades
Program Performance One-Pager (PPOP): The TIP Program Performance One-Pager (PPOP) offers a snapshot of NIOSH programs’ priorities, strategies used to make progress towards priorities, recent accomplishments, and upcoming work.
Impact Sheets: The TIP Impact Sheets briefly describe an occupational safety or health hazard, the specific NIOSH or NIOSH-funded research activity that was conducted to address the hazard, the resulting impact or recommendations, and relevant statistics. The most recent sheets include.
- NIOSH-Funded Program and Stakeholders Work to Prevent Falls from Temporary Wooden Platforms on Bridge Decks DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-190
- NIOSH Smart Phone Application Improves Ladder Safety to Reduce Falls DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-176
- Online Training Helps Protect Nurses and Other Healthcare Workers from Workplace Violence DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-118
- NIOSH-Funded State FACE Investigation Leads to Safer Handicapped-Accessible Accelerator Pedals DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-186
- A story of impact: Popular Firefighting News Forum Develops Training Poster based on NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Report DHHS No. 2019-167
- Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Prompts Fire Hose Performance Testing and Revised Standards DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-205
- NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Helps Incident Commander Choose Strategy and Tactics to Control Flow Path and Protect Fire Fighters DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-200
- NIOSH and Partners Work to Prevent Worker Deaths from Exposures to Hydrocarbon Gases and Vapors at Oil and Gas Wellsites DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No 2017-110
- NIOSH Research Improves Equipment Design to Protect Firefighters DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-183
- NIOSH and the Mid-Air Collision Avoidance Working Group Prevent Aircraft Collisions in Alaska DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-120
- PFD Manufacturer Adopts NIOSH Research into Product Development Process DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-119
Resource and Topic Pages
More information on specific workplace safety and health topics and useful resources can be found on the Traumatic Injury Prevention Directory Page.
National Occupational Research Agenda Council (NORA)
The TIP Program helps lead the NORA Traumatic Injury Prevention Cross-Sector Council, which brings together individuals and organizations to share information, form partnerships, and promote adoption and dissemination of solutions that work. The council seeks to facilitate the most important research, understand the most effective intervention strategies, and learn how to implement those strategies to achieve sustained improvements in workplace practice. The NORA TIP Research Agenda identifies the knowledge and actions most urgently needed to characterize and prevent occupational injuries and deaths.
Contact the Traumatic Injury Program Coordinator, Christine Schuler at CSchuler@cdc.gov.