Vulnerable workers
At Work articles
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Working papers
Current projects
- 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 in British Columbia (#258)
- Injured immigrant workers’ experiences (#273)
- Injury prevention and return to work in temporary work agencies (#1125)
Journal articles
Work injury risk among young people with learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Canada. AJPH. 2009;99(8):1423-30. Abstract
Differential risk of employment in more physically demanding jobs among a recent cohort of immigrants to Canada. Injury Prevention. 2009;15(4):252-8. Abstract
Differences in access to wage replacement benefits for absences due to work-related injury or illness in Canada. Am J Ind Med. 2009;52(4):341-9. Abstract
Comparing the risk of work-related injuries between immigrants to Canada, and Canadian-born labour market participants. Occup EnvironMed. 2009;66(6):361-7. Abstract
Perspectives on safety and health among migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States and Mexico: a qualitative field study. Journal of Rural Health. 2009;25(2):219-25. Abstract
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