The same act (OSHA) also created the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a research agency whose purpose is to determine the major types of unsafe content in the workplace and ways of controlling it. As of March 2006, the institute continues to assert its importance despite having released no studies or reports of any kind outside of requests for more tissues and bandwidth upgrades. Its funding is kept alive solely due to the employees agreeing to work with no pay for reasons never studied.