Vulnerable workers
At Work articles
- Increasing psychological demands elevate risk of depression (Winter 2012)
- Immigrant worker safety: IWH develops OHS information tool for newcomers (Spring 2011)
- Over-qualified immigrants at risk of poorer mental health (Spring 2011)
- Research findings from CARWH conference now online (Summer 2010)
- Dyslexia linked to higher risk of work injury among youth (Fall 2009)
- In Focus: The wide reach of IWH research (Fall 2009)
- Study suggests ways to improve safety among hard-to-reach, out-of-school young workers (Summer 2009)
- Canadian youth enter the job market early, IWH study finds (Fall 2008)
- In Focus: Immigrant workers experience different health and safety issues (Summer 2008)
- Stories of injured immigrants (Summer 2008)
- Only one in five new workers receives safety training (Spring 2007)
Issue Briefings
Sharing Best Evidence
Research highlights
- Changes in physiotherapy use for MSDs highlight inequality of access (2011)
- Precarious employment may affect worker health (2011)
- Vulnerable workers more likely to receive no income for work-related absence (2009)
- Long-term health effects seen in injured youth (2008)
- Preteens, young teens are working and getting injured (2008)
- Temp workers have similar work-related sick days as permanent workers (2008)
- Young workers out of school, with no diploma, more likely to be injured (2008)
- How young workers view workplace injuries (2007)
- Job settings, education linked to work disability in youth (2007)
- More time in sports, but not work, increases youth injury risk (2007)
- Women, young workers, minorities are more likely to be “underemployed” (2007)
- Work setting, hazards are key injury risk factors for youth (2007)
- Young workers have wage losses in the year after work disability (2007)
- Youth injury rates vary across Ontario regions (2007)
- Ontario has lowest young worker injury rate (2006)
Media releases
- 26 October 2011: Toolkit teaches newcomers about health and safety in the workplace
Working papers
Current projects
- Examining work injuries among older workers (#2120)
- Geographic differences in work injury risk (#437)
- Health and safety training for new immigrants (#1155)
- Immigrants’ work experiences, and links to diabetes and high blood pressure (#1165)
- Injured immigrant workers’ experiences (#273)
- Injury prevention and return to work in temporary work agencies (#1125)
Journal articles
Assessing occupational health and safety of young workers who use youth employment centers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2011;54(4):325-37. Abstract
Examining the decline in lost-time claim rates across age groups in Ontario between 1991 and 2007. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2011;68(11):813-7. Abstract
The prevalence of over-qualification and its association with health status among occupationally active new immigrants to Canada. Ethnicity and Health. 2010;15(6):601-19. Abstract
Promoting occupational safety and health for working children through microfinance programming. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 2010;16(2):180-90. Abstract
A commentary on the unique developmental considerations of youth: integrating the teenage cortex into the occupational health and safety context [commentaries]. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 2010;16 (2 ):225-9. Abstract
View all 37 journal citations in the vulnerable workers research area.
