The major mandates of the International Center are to: Collect, analyze and deliver domestic and international information on occupational safety and health issues, Publish international and domestic scientific journals, Contribute to WHO and developing countries as a WHO Collaborating Center in Occupational Health, Promote international collaborative studies on occupational safety and health, Administer the National Conference on the Promotion of Occupational Health and Safety Priority Research, and Manage the library, the computer network and other relevant information services.

International Research Collaboration

The institute currently holds mutual research collaboration agreements with institutions in the USA, the UK, South Korea, China, etc. The institute intends to strengthen its collaboration with ASEAN countries in the near future, as we believe that our long experience in occupational health practice and research can be an important reference for currently industrializing countries, as they tackle emerging occupational health issues.

Publication of the Journal

INDUSTRIAL HEALTH is an international scientific journal currently published by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan. First issued in 1963, it has been providing advanced scientific information for many years. The journal is now published bimonthly and covers a wide variety of occupational health and safety topics, including industrial hygiene, ergonomics, human engineering and policy sciences.

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and HEALTH, a domestic journal, has been also published since 2008, for the promotion of domestic research on occupational safety and health.

International scientific journal 'Industrial Health'	Domestic scientific journal 'Occupational Safety and Health'

Contribution to WHO

JNIOSH was first designated in 1977 as a WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health in Japan and was redesignated in 2007.

JNIOSH participated in the first (2001-2005) and second (2006-2010) terms of the WHO Global Network Work Plan. JNIOSH has also continued participating in the Global Plan of Action (GPA) which newly started from 2009, and has been collecting and disseminating the latest information on Occupational Safety and Health on a global scale through the research network organized by the WHO Collaborating Centers. The international center acts as an executive office of the WHO Collaborating Center in JNIOSH.

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