NORA Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities Sector Council
Meetings
The NORA TWU Council meets using virtual meeting software.
Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
January 19, 2022 1:00 – 4:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Introduction (R.J. Matetic and Eric Wood)
- How might the TWU Sector Council best address trucking health and safety concerns? – To be addressed during discussion (all)
- Review and focus on trucking specific NORA TWU objectives through breakout room discussions.
- Identify and compile current and future research needs and gaps to address trucking health and safety concerns.
- Breakout rooms (all)
- Fatalities/Injuries/Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Health and Well-Being (1)
- Health and Well-Being (2)
- Prevention Thru Design/Emerging Technology
- Safety Management Systems/Economy
- Breakout room reports
- Action Items (R.J.)
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts (Eric)
March 22, 2022 1:00 – 4:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Introduction (R.J. Matetic and Eric Wood)
- How might the TWU Sector Council best address ground transportation health and safety concerns? – To be addressed during discussion (all)
- Review and focus on ground transportation specific NORA TWU objectives through breakout room discussions.
- Identify and compile current and future research needs and gaps to address trucking health and safety concerns.
- Breakout rooms (all)
- Fatalities/Injuries/Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Health and Well-Being
- Prevention Thru Design/Emerging Technology
- Safety Management Systems/Economy
- Breakout room reports
- Action Items (R.J.)
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts (Eric)
January 6, 2021 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Plan for the Meeting
R.J. Matetic and Eric Wood, Council Co-Chairs - Background to CDC COVID response effort and reason for this request for input
R.J. Matetic, Karl Sieber, and Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH - Break-out group discussions on vaccination
- Findings/Views/Discussion from each break-out group
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
Eric Wood
March 2, 2021 2:00 – 3:00 pm (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Plan for the Meeting
- Background to CDC COVID response efforts and NIOSH response teams
- Discussion: How might the TWU Sector Council best provide support for educating TWU workers and increasing vaccination coverage and acceptance?
- Action Items
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
April 6, 2021 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and plan for the meeting
- Current communications resources to increase uptake among TWU essential workers and background on essential workers
- Discussion: How might the TWU Sector Council best provide support for educating and communicating with TWU workers to increase vaccination coverage and acceptance?
- Current Work of the NIOSH Essential Worker Team in the CDC COVID-19 Response
- Preview of Upcoming Meetings: TWU Research Agenda Update
- Action Items
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
September 21, 2021 2:00 -3:30 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and plan for the meeting
- Presentation: The Future of Worker Safety and Health in the Trucking Industry in the Post-Pandemic World – Brian Fielkow, CEO, JETCO Delivery
- Discussion: How might the TWU Sector Council best provide support TWU workers and work policies Post-Pandemic?
- Preview of Upcoming Meetings: TWU Research Agenda Update
- Action Items
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
October 12, 2021 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Introduction
- Presentations: Comparing Company Characteristics and Injury Rates
Eric H. Bauman, Principal Technical Leader and Program Manager – Occupational Health and Safety, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Matthew Hallowell, Safety Function LLC and University of Colorado-Boulder - TWU Research Agenda, Preview of Upcoming TWU Meetings: might the TWU Sector Council best address TWU worker health and safety concerns?
- Action Items
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
May 19, 2020 2:00-4:30 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Orientation to the Meeting
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Council Co-Chairs - Presentations and Discussion on Impairment
- Drug Overdose Deaths at Work
Hope Tiesman, NIOSH Epidemiologist - Marijuana, Cannabidiol (CBD), and Vaping: Implications for Commercial Driving, and all Safety Sensitive Transportation Workers
Gerald P. Krueger, Krueger Ergonomics Consultants - Update of NIOSH Work on Opioids: A Look at Impairment and Workplace Supported Recovery
L. Casey Chosewood and Jamie Osborne, NIOSH
- Drug Overdose Deaths at Work
- Discussion and follow-up
Karl Sieber, NIOSH - TWU council Updates, with an Emphasis on Items Addressing COVID-19
- Medical Overview of COVID-19
Eric Wood, University of Utah - TWU Council Updates, with an Emphasis on Items Addressing COVID-19
Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH - Presentation and Discussion on Enhancing the Council
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Council Co-Chairs - Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
Eric Wood
September 22, 2020 1:00-3:45 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome and Orientation to the Meeting
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Council Co-Chairs
- Council Member Introductions
- Presentations and Discussion on Economics
- The economics of long work hours: how economic incentives influence workplace practiceMike Belzer, Professor, Department of Economics, Wayne State University
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- Economic cycles and workplace injuries
John W. Ruser, Ph.D., President and CEO, Workers Compensation Research Institute WCRI
- Economic cycles and workplace injuries
- Council Facilitated Discussion
Karl Sieber, NIOSH
- TWU Council Updates
- New ShareFile
Emily Novicki, NORA Coordinator
- Action Items
RJ Matetic
- Wrap-up and Final Thoughts
Eric Wood
April 5, 2019 3:00 – 5:30 pm ET (Virtual meeting)
- Welcome
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Co-chairs - Trends Affecting Job Quality in Goods Movement
Steve Viscelli, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology - Physical and psychological impacts of precarious work on warehouse workers in Southern California
Sheheryar Kaoosji, Warehouse Worker Resource Center - Update: NORA Services Sector Council Contingent Workers Workgroup
Lauren Menger-Ogle and Michelle Owens-Gary, NORA Services Sector Council - Discussion and follow-up
Karl Sieber, NIOSH - TWU council updates
Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH - Themes for next council meeting
Karl Sieber, NIOSH - Final thoughts from Council members
Eric Wood, University of Utah
August 14, 2019 2:00 – 4:15 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Co-chairs - Using Workers’ Compensation Data and Systems to Improve Safety and Health
Steve Wurzelbacher, PhD, CPE, ARM, Center for Workers’ Compensation Studies (CWCS), NIOSH - Injury Surveillance: Guiding Ergonomics Interventions for the Electric Power Industry
Ximena P. Vergara, PhD, MPH, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) - Injury Surveillance That Supports Prevention
Jack Sahl, J. Sahl Associates - Discussion and follow-up
Karl Sieber, NIOSH - TWU council updates
Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH - Themes for next council meeting
Karl Sieber, NIOSH
November 19, 2019 2:00-4:30 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Co-chairs
- Advanced Vehicle Technology Update
Randy Tomlinson, Sr. Mgr., Safety & Health Ryder Integrated Logistics
- Preparing for a Future with Automated Vehicles
Stephanie Pratt, PhD, NIOSH
- Labor Perspectives on Automated Vehicle Technologies
Enjoli DeGrasse, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Department of Safety and Health
- Discussion and follow-up
Karl Sieber, NIOSH
- TWU council updates
Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH
- Themes for next council meeting
Karl Sieber
- Final thoughts from Council members
Eric Wood
February 23, 2018 1:00-4:00 pm (virtual meeting)
Topic: Virtual reality in Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
- Welcome
- Presentations
- New Transportation Technologies and the Human Operator: Training and Evaluation
Donald L. Fisher and David Moore, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center - How Simulation Impacts Training
Robert Raheb & Clayne Woodbury, FAAC Inc. - VR in Walmart U.S. Academies
Aaron Kimbrough, Digital Operations, Walmart U.S. Central Operations
- New Transportation Technologies and the Human Operator: Training and Evaluation
- Council business
- Status of research agenda
- Potential council activities
- Next council meeting
May 18, 2018 2:00-3:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome
Eric Wood and Dawn Castillo - How NIOSH is addressing NORA TWU Research Agenda objectives
Dawn Castillo - Discussion of how Council members can/will address the NORA TWU Research Agenda
Eric Wood - Updates from Council members
Jennifer E. Lincoln - Council business and wrap up
Karl Sieber
July 24, 2018 1:00-3:30 pm ET (virtual meeting)
Held in conjunction with the Cancer, Reproductive, Cardiovascular, and Other Chronic Disease Prevention (CRC) and Respiratory Health (RH) Councils
- Welcomes and introductions
Dawn Castillo, TWU Co-chair; Paul Landsbergis, CRC Co-chair; David Weissman, RH Co-chair - Presentations
- Maintenance-of-Way Worker Health and Safety Study
Paul Landsbergis, SUNY-Downstate School of Public health - The Health Status of Passenger Transit Workers: A Comparative Perspective from Group Health Insurance Medical Claims Data in the U.S.
Tim Bushnell, NIOSH - Medicare Claims and Enrollment Data: Strengths, Limitations and Opportunities
Megan Casey, NIOSH
- Maintenance-of-Way Worker Health and Safety Study
- Group Discussion: Value, challenges, and opportunities for medical claims analyses
Facilitator- Karl Sieber, NIOSH - Group Discussion: Potential follow-up
Facilitator – Jennifer E. Lincoln, NIOSH - Open Mic (opportunity to share updates or information likely to be of interest to participants)
Facilitator – Dawn Castillo, NIOSH - Wrap-up and Closing Comments
Teresa Schnorr, CRC Co-Chair; Paul Henneberger, RH Program Coordinator; Karl Sieber, TWU Program Coordinator
December 10, 2018 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood, Council Co-chairs - Presentations
- Conducting Mental Health Research in Seafarers
Rafael Lefkowitz, Yale School of Medicine - Commercial driving and obesity: Working conditions, behavioral interactions, and interventions
Ryan Olson, Oregon Health and Science University - Truck Driver Health: Can we Improve Heart, Mind, and Body?
Matt Thiese, University of Utah
- Conducting Mental Health Research in Seafarers
- Discussion and follow-up
Facilitator – Karl Sieber, NIOSH - TWU council updates
Facilitator – Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH - Themes for next council meeting
Facilitator – Karl Sieber - Final thoughts from Council members
Facilitator – Eric Wood
February 17, 2017 2:00-4:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome/Roll call with brief reports
Jennifer E. Lincoln - Facilitating council member communication
Liz Dalsey and Karl Sieber - Presentation- Progress on the TWU goals for the second decade of NORA
Karl Sieber - Discussion of aids and barriers to progress on second decade goals
- Review of Draft Agenda, Role of Strategic Objectives
Dawn Castillo - Round Robin: Strategic Objectives
Eric Wood - Next Steps
Dawn Castillo - Round Robin: Final Thoughts
Eric Wood
May 12, 2017 11:00 am – 2:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome/Roll call, with brief reports from Council members
Dawn Castillo and Eric Wood- Welcome
Jennifer E. Lincoln – Roll Call - The Role of Psychosocial Variables in Occupational Health & Safety
Kim Davies-Schrills - Reports from workgroups on strategic objective descriptive text (5 minute presentations for each, with 5 minutes for discussion)
Karl Sieber- Objective 1: Reduce deaths and injuries of TWU workers
Terry Bunn - Objective 2: Reduce musculoskeletal disorders among TWU workers
Dinkar Mokadom - Objective 3: Promote and improve the health and well-being of TWU workers
Jeff Hickman - Objective 4: Increase knowledge about the association between TWU worker exposures and adverse health outcomes, and effective prevention and control strategies
Dan Flinta - Objective 5: Increase knowledge about the role of worker characteristics and impairment on TWU worker safety, health and well-being, and effective prevention strategies
Robin Gillespie - Objective 6: Encourage Prevention through Design to improve the safety of work environments, equipment, and tasks
Jack Sahl - Objective 7: Proactively address the safety implications of emerging technologies
Dawn Castillo - Objective 8: Support safe workplaces through organizational-level factors, programs and measures
Jennifer M. Lincoln - Objective 9: Increase understanding of how changes in the economy affect the safety and well-being of TWU workers
Kim Davies-Schrils - Objective 10: Foster translation of research into practice to improve the health and well-being of TWU workers
Steve Popkin and Mark Friend
- Objective 1: Reduce deaths and injuries of TWU workers
- Next steps to synthesize and refine Strategic Objectives and descriptions
Dawn Castillo - Planning ahead – ideas on frequency and content of upcoming Council meetings; interactions with other sector and cross-sector councils
Jennifer E. Lincoln - Final thoughts from Council members
Eric Wood
September 15, 2017 1:00-3:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome/Roll call with brief reports
Jennifer E. Lincoln - Introduction to Presentation and Discussion
Dawn Castillo- “Managing Safety” Presentation
Mark Friend and Kim Davies-Shrils - Facilitated Discussion
Karl Sieber - Potential Follow-up by Council
Jennifer E. Lincoln
- “Managing Safety” Presentation
- Sector Council Business
Dawn Castillo
December 1, 2016 2:00-4:00 pm ET (virtual meeting)
- Welcome
Eric Wood and Dawn Castillo, Co-Chairs - Member introductions, including identifying specific areas of interest
Jennifer E. Lincoln - Presentation- Overview of NORA and 1st year objectives to develop broad strategic research objectives
Emily Novicki, NORA Coordinator, NIOSH - Discussion of Council vision and target audiences
Eric Wood - Process to identify strategic research objectives; Agenda for meeting in Jan/Feb 2017
Dawn Castillo
Page last reviewed: April 28, 2022
Content source: National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)