Establishing the Alaska Pacific Regional Office 1995 NIOSH

The Alaska Pacific Regional Office (APRO) was established in 1991, to address the high rate of occupational injuries and fatalities in Alaska (five times higher than the national average.) Through focused research programs and a collaborative effort by many agencies, NGOs, industries, and workers centered on commercial fishing, logging, and aviation, APRO helped bring about a 63% reduction in worker deaths by 2009. For more about the NIOSH Alaska office and research, go to http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/contact/im-alaska.html. This is clipped from a 1995 NIOSH 25th Anniversary video.

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