The Health Hazard Evaluation Program at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2009) / Chapter Skim
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5 Vision and Recommendations
5 Vision and Recommendations
Pages 121-127
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The committee concludes the chapter by summarizing recommendations provided in Chapters 3 and 4 of the report. VISION FOR THE HEALTH HAZARD EVALUATION PROGRAM The ideal HHE Program, as envisioned by the committee, would respond promptly to requests for evaluation of the chemical, physical, and biological hazards within the HHE legislative scope, serving all workers, including underserved populations.
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Finally, the HHE Program would continue to provide guidance and recom mendations during public health emergencies. In contrast, the HHE Program would not provide what others can do, such as routine industrial hygiene measurements or standardized responses to common problems like indoor environmental quality.
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oritizing HHE requests. Priority should be based on the gravity of the potential harm, the number of employees potentially at risk at similar workplaces or using similar work processes, the urgency of the problem, the potential to assess health outcomes, and the pos sibility of identifying emerging issues.
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termination of relevance and impact on a systematic basis (potentially missed opportunities to identify emerging health hazards could also be identified) (Chapter 3, page 74)
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A program-level advisory board could assist the program in leveraging resources, serve a recruiting and retention func tion, assist in identifying emerging issues, and provide expert advice during normal program operations and when normal program opera tions are interrupted by emergency response activities (Chapter 4, page 107)
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To accomplish this, the HHE Program could a Evolve from a program that passively receives requests to a proactive . program that seeks opportunities for field investigations (Chapter 3, page 78)
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and stakeholders in government, academe, labor, and industry to dis cuss specific unresolved evaluations, to review aggregate findings, and to solicit input about new or emerging hazards or interventions. The HHE Program could establish one or more stakeholder groups to as sist in identifying exposure circumstances or types of workplaces that could be the object of HHE requests likely to have high relevance and impact.
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