Effective OHS practices
At Work articles
- Exploring complex issues to find return-to-work answers (Winter 2010)
- OHS education and training promotes positive worker practices (Winter 2010)
- THE BIG PICTURE: Solving the “problem” of OHS in small business (Winter 2010)
- In Focus: The wide reach of IWH research (Fall 2009)
- New IWH guide aims to improve effectiveness of PE programs (Summer 2009)
- In Focus: OHS management audits differ in what they assess and how (Spring 2009)
- In Focus: Small firms need OHS services tailored to their needs (Winter 2009)
- Research team examines the relationship between business and OHS outcomes (Fall 2008)
- Can social marketing campaigns prevent workplace injury and illness? (Summer 2007)
- In Focus: Safety climate has “great potential” in reducing workplace injury rates (Summer 2007)
- Only one in five new workers receives safety training (Spring 2007)
- Safety climate shows promise in injury prevention (Spring 2007)
Sharing Best Evidence
Research highlights
Systematic reviews
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of training & education for the protection of workers (2010)
- Process and implementation of participatory ergonomics interventions: A systematic review (2008)
- A systematic review of injury/illness prevention and loss control (IPC) programs (2008)
- Effectiveness and implementation of health and safety programs in small enterprises: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative literature (2008)
- Interventions in health-care settings to protect musculoskeletal health: a systematic review (2007)
- A systematic review of OHS interventions with economic evaluations (2007)
Current projects
- Assessing Ontario's High Risk Firm Initiative (#432)
- Benchmarking leading indicators for injury prevention (#1160)
- Computer training to prevent MSDs in office workers (#1150)
- Economic evaluation of OHS in the health-care sector (#1135)
- Economic evaluations of workplace prevention programs (#960)
- Evaluating education and training for protecting workers (#975)
- Health and safety training for new immigrants (#1155)
- Health and wellness programs for workers with chronic health problems (#1140)
- Occupational health and safety (OHS) in new economy organizations (#222)
- Organizational policies and practices (#277)
- Testing a survey to measure safety culture (#1105)
- The relationship between safety and business outcomes (#429)
- Understanding breakthrough change in OHS performance (#1145)
Journal articles
Deriving the factor structure of safety climate scales. Safety Science. 2009;47(3):327-9. Abstract
Spreading good ideas: A case study of the adoption of an innovation in the construction sector. Appl Ergo. 2009;40(5):826-32. Abstract
Work Disability Prevention CIHR Strategic Training Program: program performance after 5 years of implementation. J Occup Rehab. 2009;19(1):1-7. Abstract
Individual, environmental, and organizational factors that influence nurses' use of facial protection to prevent occupational transmission of communicable respiratory illness in acute care hospitals. American Journal of Infection Control. 2008;36(7):481-7. Abstract
Growing knowledge about "what works" to prevent work injuries. Occup EnvironMed. 2008;65(5):297-8.
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