A Review of the NIOSH Roadmap for Research on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles (2009) / Chapter Skim
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2 Key Components of the Roadmap
2 Key Components of the Roadmap
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describes the next steps in implementing the Roadmap including identifying specific research to be conducted, prioritizing research to achieve the proposed goals, and building partnerships to see the research to fruition. The remainder of this chapter considers the process used to develop the Roadmap, considers how the Roadmap fits into a broader research strategy intended to implement the research, and examines and discusses the organization and key components of the Roadmap.
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The challenge in developing and implementing the research program outlined in the Roadmap lies in the interagency and interdisciplinary nature of the research questions. Because NIOSH is not the only federal agency involved in efforts on asbestos and numerous stakeholders are interested in these issues, implementation of the Roadmap will involve many other entities.
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A BROADER RESEARCH STRATEGY A roadmap is defined as "a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal" (Merriam-Webster, 2009)
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In 2007 the NRC report A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy reviewed a plan that established the first coordinated national interagency research planning effort to support ocean science. The NRC report was supportive of the research plan but found that it lacked some important elements including a vision for ocean research in the next decade, a ranking of either long-term or nearterm priorities, a discussion of the level of needed funding, an implementation strategy, and metrics by which the plan would be evaluated.
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What will the balance be between principal investiga tor-driven and goal-driven research and between intramural and extramural research programs? How will research efforts be co ordinated to ensure a coherent approach to achieving the stated goals?
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In drawing from the examples above and the committee's expertise with similar documents, the committee has concluded that the NIOSH Roadmap needs to be strengthened to clearly address the following key components: • Overarching vision • Rationale for the endeavor -- in this case, the public and occupa tional health rationale • Research goals • Research framework -- the systematic plan for conducting the research Each of these components is discussed below in terms of how it is currently presented and how it could be improved in the Roadmap. Overarching Vision The fundamental research questions discussed in the Roadmap revolve around how to assess the relative health hazards of exposures to the full spectrum of elongate mineral particles.
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The committee strongly supports NIOSH in its development of the Roadmap but considers that the Roadmap, in addition to providing the scientific rationale, should clearly articulate the influence that ongoing and future research can have on improving public and occupational health. For example, although the Roadmap provides data on the health effects of asbestos exposure and their related latency, it would be helpful if it also included a discussion of exposures to other elongate mineral particles, the numbers of workers potentially affected, and the extent of environmental exposures that might impact public health.
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• Reduce inter-operator and inter-laboratory variability of the current analytical methods used for asbestos fibers; • Develop analytical methods with improved sensitivity to visualize thin ner elongated mineral particles to ensure a more complete evaluation of airborne exposures; • Develop a practical analytical method for air samples to differentiate between exposures to asbestiform fibers from asbestos minerals and exposures to elongated mineral particles from their nonasbestiform analogs; • Develop analytical methods to assess durability of elongated mineral particles; and
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However, the Roadmap lacks a vision of how to use the science in a prospective way to assess potential hazards or a plan for developing the ability to do so. A standardized stepwise process for assessing the nature and extent of potential health hazards of inhaled elongate mineral particles is needed to address concerns that arise when a previously unstudied exposure situation (e.g., as occurred at Libby, Montana)
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NIOSH current intelligence bulletin. Asbestos fibers and other elongated mineral particles: State of the science and roadmap for research.
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