Occupational Safety and Health Research
Funds a single, self-contained research project on any occupational safety or health problem the investigator chooses to study.
Not every good idea in workplace-safety research fits a named topic. This is NIOSH's standing, general-purpose research grant for the ones that don't need one.
Three things it exists to do: build a better understanding of the risks behind occupational disease and injury, evaluate ways to cut those risks, and turn scientific findings into prevention strategies, interventions and products people ac…
Investigator-driven research projects on any occupational safety or health risk, prevention method, intervention or product, reflecting the applicant's own expertise and aligned with NIOSH's mission. No foreign organisation, and no foreign component of a U.S. organisation, applies as the lead.
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