NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

elated to work. NIOSH has an important labor
from the view point of services, but eighty
percent of its resources of its personnel are
dedicated principally to the area of
investigation.
We will mention a little about what are
the antecedents of NORA which is the National
Agency of Occupational Investigation. And we
will speak a little of its history, how it was
initiated. Around the year 1994 the agency
went through some hard times, thus around the
year 1995 some of the leaders who formed our
institution decided to meet with a group of
persons who were also related to the area of
health and security. And they said they had to
do something new, something different,
something to be able to respond to the threat
that was presented at that moment in the
agency. And they decided to listen.
As Maria has mentioned, listen to the
ideas and proposals not only of the union
organizations and to the traditional members
that had been working, but also to all those
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individuals, workers, government organizations,