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• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
  The CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
   
  
• CSB - United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
  The mission of the CSB is to promote the prevention of major chemical accidents at fixed facilities.
  The CSB conducts research, advises industry and labor on actions they should take to improve safety, and makes recommendations to local, federal, and state agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) at the U.S. Department of Labor, the key federal entities regulating industries that use chemicals. As set forth in our strategic plan, the target date to achieve full operational status is fiscal year 2005.
   
  
• IHA - Institute of Hygiene and Applied Physiology (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  Key issues of the research are software ergonomics, noise and vibration, visual phenomena or indoor air quality. The Institute offers post graduate and other courses together with other partners, for instance in the area of work and health and eye optics.
   
  
• ILO-CIS - International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre
  CIS is a unit of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The major objective of CIS is to be a worldwide service dedicated to the collection and dissemination of information on the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.
   
  
• 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)
  OSHA establishes protective standards, enforces those standards, and reaches out to employers and employees through technical assistance and consultation programs. Workplace inspections are one of OSHA's principal activities.
   
  
• SUVA
  Die Suva ist die wichtigste Trägerin der obligatorischen Unfallversicherung in der Schweiz. Die drei Kerngeschäfte der Suva sind: Prävention, Versicherung und Rehabilitation
   
  
• TA-SWISS - Centre for Technology Assessment
  The team at the TA-SWISS has targeted the objective of transmitting independent information on the potential, the risks, and the repercussions of new technologies, and of dealing with the issues emerging from them in as broad a scope as possible. The creation of a constructive dialogue between the public and the scientific community is also one of the tasks which the Centre for Technology Assessment has taken on through the implementation and development of participative methods. TA-SWISS thereby provides the public and the political authorities with high-quality and unbiased information.
   
  
• USACHPPM - US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
  USACHPPM's mission is to provide worldwide technical support for implementing preventive medicine, public health, and health promotion/wellness services into all aspects of America's Army and the Army Community anticipating and rapidly responding to operational needs and adaptable to a changing world environment.