About the Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace

Increasingly, accident prevention efforts must address complex interactions among workers, organizations, and technologies. Few research organizations other than RAND are capable of providing analysis that reflects each of these interconnected issues, and none except RAND are capable of doing it on a large scale.

The RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace (CHSW) provides objective, innovative, and cross-cutting research on occupational safety, health, and workers' compensation. It expands existing lines of RAND research on safety technology, health assessment, healthcare management, liability and compensation, and policy planning.

The Center conducts rigorous, objective analysis and offers a neutral venue in which to convene stakeholders from government, industry, and labor. For government decisionmakers, CHSW provides high-quality research and analysis that can

• identify trends and emerging risks
• assist in setting priorities and allocating resources, and
• evaluate current policies and investments.

For leaders in labor and industry, CHSW provides tools that can help

• disseminate best practices for improving safety and health and reducing costs and
• match solutions with particular workplaces.

Pittsburgh is a natural home for the Center, given the region's mix of traditional manufacturing and high-tech industries, along with the leadership of labor unions and innovative companies. The Center also provides an opportunity to strengthen RAND's ties with the region's research and is part of RAND's strategy for doubling the size of the Pittsburgh office to 200 people within five years.

About RAND

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND focuses on the issues that matter most such as health, education, national security, international affairs, law and business, the environment, and more. With a research staff consisting of some of the world's preeminent minds, RAND has been expanding the boundaries of human knowledge for more than 60 years.