About the Center
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 by 2008.
About RAND
The original “think tank,” the RAND Corporation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. In 2000, RAND opened its third U.S. office in Pittsburgh. RAND also operates offices in California, Washington DC, The United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, and Qatar.
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