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• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
  CDC has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability.
   
  
• CSB - U.S. Chemical Safety Board
  The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents.
   
  
• ZOA - Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  Key issues of the research are
  • Ergonomics
  • Work + Health
  • Environmental Hygiene
  • Management of uncertainity in companies
  • Psychology in Work Environments
     
    
• ILO-CIS - International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre
  CIS is the knowledge management arm of the ILO Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment (SafeWork). Its goal is to ensure that workers and everyone concerned with their protection have access to the facts they need to prevent occupational injuries and diseases. The SafeWork programme has four major goals:
  • preventive policies and programmes are developed to protect workers in hazardous occupations and sectors
  • effective protection is extended to vulnerable groups of workers falling outside the scope of traditional protective measures
  • governments and employers' and workers' organizations are better equipped to address problems of workers' well-being, occupational health promotion and the quality of working life
  • the social and economic impact of improving workers' protection is documented and recognized by policy- and decision-makers
     
    
• NIOSH - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA)
  The NIOSH is the Federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related disease and injury. The Institute is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
   
  
• OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (USA)
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been created to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
   
  
• SUVA
  Die Suva ist die wichtigste Trägerin der obligatorischen Unfallversicherung in der Schweiz. Die drei Kerngeschäfte der Suva sind: Prävention, Schadenmanagement und Rehabilitation
   
  
• TA-SWISS - Centre for Technology Assessment
  Technology assessment is used to identify the consequences of new technologies as early as possible. The recommendations resulting from TA projects are used by Parliament and the Federal Council as an aid to decision making – especially when controversial technology topics are discussed. In addition, the project results are communicated to interested politicians, experts from science and administration, as well as the media and interested citizens.
   
  
• U.S. Army Public Health Command
  The U.S. Army Public Health Command integrates the missions of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine and the U.S. Army Veterinary Command. This integration is occurring in phases over a two-year period beginning with USACHPPM’s conversion to provisional status Oct. 1, 2009, and ending when the USAPHC reaches full operational capability, targeted for Oct. 1, 2011.
  The mission of this new organization is to promote health and prevent disease, injury, and disability of Soldiers and military retirees, their Families, and Department of the Army civilian employees; and assure effective execution of full spectrum veterinary service for Army and Department of Defense Veterinary missions.