BY PAUL BARTON
Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON -- Engineers, scientists and technical experts in Cincinnati have made the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) a candidate for a major government innovation award, the agency said Tuesday.
NIOSH is one of 25 finalists for this year's Innovation in American Government Awards sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Ten winners will be announced Oct. 22 at the National Press Club. Cincinnati NIOSH employees were involved in work with the asphalt paving industry, organized labor and other federal agencies to establish emission controls on paving equipment, reducing exposures for close to 300,000 asphalt paving workers, the agency said.
Those from the Cincinnati office who played a part, the agency said, included R. Leroy Mickelsen, Ken Mead, Dennis O'Brien, Larry Reed, Stan Shulman, Paul Schulte, Ralph Zumwalde, Larry Olsen, Chuck Neumeister and Rosa Key-Schwartz.
NIOSH Director Linda Rosenstock said the asphalt work "offers a fresh model for achieving faster, more cost- effective solutions to pressing problems."
