The NFA's Strategy

NFA’s Institutional Strategy Summarised as a Mission to Address Challenges.

NFA contributes to a healthy and safe working environment through research, research dissemination, education, and scientific advisory services.

This mission can be translated into a series of contributions - effects - that NFA’s research should be directed towards. NFA’s research must identify and explore current and future challenges and opportunities in the working environment and contribute to the prevention and management of occupational health and safety challenges through research-informed solutions.

NFA’s research must:

• Support the achievement of national objectives for the working environment.
• Contribute to the realisation of the national research strategy for the working environment.
• Create societal impact in policy and practice.
• Contribute to knowledge about a healthy and safe workforce.

A Strategy with Four Key Objectives

NFA’s strategy follows four main tracks:

1. More Innovative Research

NFA’s research is already of high international quality, and this strong position must be maintained. NFA must further focus on conducting more intervention, implementation, and economic research in occupational health and safety. Additionally, NFA should leverage the potential of interdisciplinary collaborations both internally and externally, as well as the opportunities presented by new digital technologies.

2. Greater Societal Impact

NFA must maintain its focus on researching factors that promote the health and safety of the workforce through continuous dialogue with key stakeholders and potential strategic partnerships.

Furthermore, NFA must strategically disseminate its research knowledge through relevant (digital) channels with tailored content.

NFA must also document its societal impact through methods that position it as an internationally recognised and leading thought leader in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange (KTE) research.

3. Harnessing Digital Potential

NFA must identify and capitalise on digital opportunities across various processes in both research and support functions. Collectively, this is expected to result in a significant enhancement and transformation of NFA’s operations.

4. Strengthened Organisational Resilience

The work at NFA should be characterised by job satisfaction, high professional standards, mutual respect, influence over one’s own work, and strong leadership. A focus on employee development should be reinforced and supported by an infrastructure that facilitates organisational learning.