Building relationships

IWH has built ongoing relationships with a variety of audiences in the occupational health and safety field. We also engage specific groups with an interest in particular research projects or areas.

Prevention partners: Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB), Ministry of Labour, sector-specific health and safety associations (HSAs), organized labour and employers. KTE continues to build relationships with the prevention partner community through vehicles like the Health and Safety Association (HSA) Liaison Committee.

Workplace parties: WSIB service delivery teams and specialty programs, health and safety associations, disability managers, safety groups, independent consultants, Ministry of Labour inspectors, organized labour, organizations that target workplaces (e.g., Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety). All of these groups are in workplaces on a regular basis or designing programs for workplaces.

Policy-makers: WSIB, Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care. Building relationships with these audiences improves the link between their priorities and the research agenda and makes research results more readily available to support policy-making.

Specific audiences: Through IWH's research in young workers and immigrant workers, we have worked with groups such as Ontario's youth employment centres and CERIS, the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement