Most Recent Occupational Health Resources

Engaging Teachers to Communicate Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and Other Topics  

When consensus about a risk or mitigating behavior is newly developed and/or not clearly understood, communicating that consensus through teachers / instructors can be critical. While this blog entry focuses on climate change, it may also apply to new understandings in many topic areas.

Global Burden of Disease  

A comprehensive picture of what disables and kills people across countries, time, age, and sex. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides a tool to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities can be eliminated.Collected and analyzed by a consortium of more than 2,300 researchers, the data capture premature death and disability from more than 300 diseases and injuries in 195 countries

Behavior-Based Safety and Occupational Risk Management  

The behavior-based approach to managing occupational risk and preventing workplace injuries is reviewed. Unlike the typical top-down control approach to industrial safety, behavior-based safety (BBS) provides tools and procedures workers can use to take personal control of occupational risks. Strategies the author and his colleagues have been using for more than a decade to teach BBS to safety leaders and line workers are presented. In addition, a conceptual model is proposed for matching the awareness and behavior of an individual with a particular BBS intervention technique.

Motor Vehicle Safety Training for Small Businesses  

This study, conducted in 2016-2017 by RTI on behalf of the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), looked at what motor vehicle safety topics and products are of greatest use to small businesses.

Social Marketing Downunder  

Includes sections on: introduction to social marketing, research, case studies, and professional development. Covers a range of topics including: physical activity, alcohol, domestic violence, tobacco, and workplace health and safety.

Using Social Marketing to Increase Occupational Health and Safety  

Reviews young worker focused occupational health and safety (OH&S) communications materials and determining how young workers respond to a sample of these materials. Published August 2008.

A Review of Evaluations of Social Marketing Campaigns in Occupational Injury, Disease or Disability Prevention  

Reviews published evaluation and research studies on occupational health and safety social marketing campaigns.Published February 2007. One key finding is that "paigns based exclusively on mass media communications do not appear to be as effective in reducing the incidence of work-related injury, disease or disability as campaigns that integrate public communications strategies with companion programs involving consultation services, inspection and enforcement, or education and training."

Program Impact Attribution  

This document provides a brief summary of options for assessing what portion of any measured behavior changes resulted from your program and what portion resulted from other influences. These options can also be used to attribute the affects of your program on a wide range of related variables such as resources used, pollutants released, accident rates and health status.

Health-Evidence.ca  

A free, searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions. The content has been quality rated. Bilingual (English and French).

Topics include: AIDS, environmental health, fitness, injury prevention, nutrition, safety, cycling, walking, water quality

CDC Centre for Injury Prevention and Control  

Provides resources on home and recreational safety, motor vehicle safety, violence prevention, traumatic brain injury and injury response

Behavior-Based Safety and Occupational Risk Management  

Reviews the behavior-based approach to managing occupational risk and preventing workplace injuries. Behavior-based safety (BBS) provides tools and procedures workers can use to take personal control of occupational risks. Strategies the author and his colleagues have been using for more than a decade to teach BBS to safety leaders and line workers are presented. In addition, a conceptual model is proposed for matching the awareness and behavior of an individual with a particular BBS intervention technique.

Program Evaluation Methods; Measurement and Attribution of Program Results  

A good, detailed, freely accessible overview of program evaluation and attribution methods.

CDC Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)  

CDC Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury data from a variety of sources.

The impact of comics vs photographs on knowledge, attitude and behavioural intentions  

This study compares two modes of visually presenting information  – one using photographs and the other using cartoons – on audience’s knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions.

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