OEH seminar: Return-to-work is not a single event
March 2016: Partnership co-lead Chris McLeod will present a UBC School of Population and Public Health Occupational and Environmental Health seminar: Return-to-work is not a single event: Our evolving understanding of return-to-work trajectories after work injury. March 18 at 12:30pm. A live webinar option is available.
Presentation at AIHA BC-Yukon on Health and Safety Management and Occupational Hygiene
March 2016: Partnership co-lead Chris McLeod will present at the American Industrial Hygiene Association BC-Yukon Local Section 2016 Conference and Annual General Meeting on March 11.
National comparative research featured
February 2016: Our work comparing long duration claims across Canadian provinces is featured in the 2015 Annual Report of the Research and Workplace Innovation Program, Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba. See pages 4 and 5 for pictures of our knowledge translation and exchange work and page 30 for a project update. More on our national and international comparative work.
Presentation at Ontario General Contractors Association Leadership Day
February 2016: Chris McLeod gave a talk about the Certificate of Recognition impact evaluation at Ontario General Contractors Association Leadership Day. More about COR
Grand Rounds: Bicycling Injury Hospitalization
December 2015: Partnership co-lead Mieke Koehoorn and Kay Teschke will discuss the results of their study of rates of cycling injury hospitalization at Grand Rounds in the UBC School of Population and Public Health on December 4. A live webinar option is available.
The Difference that Sex and Gender Make in Health Research
November 2015: Partnership co-lead Mieke Koehoorn will give a seminar on sex and gender in health research on December 2 as part of the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS) Work in Progress Seminar Series.
COR program evaluation in Journal of Commerce
October 2015: View the article, watch an interview with Chris McLeod or learn more about the COR program.
Abstracts for Semiahmoo 2016 – Occupational, Environmental, and Public Health Conference
October 2015: Abstracts for posters, papers or discussions of research in progress are due by Nov. 16, 2015.
International return to work comparisons
October 2015: Co-lead Chris McLeod and colleagues from the Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research in Australia have published an introductory report on international comparisons of compensation policy & return to work outcomes. More on this work
WorkSafeBC Research Day presentation
September 2015: On Sept 18, Chris McLeod and George Astrakianakis will present our work on violence prevention in health care settings. We are building on existing research into effective violence prevention and occupational health and safety management to develop leading and lagging indicators to best measure the effect of violence prevention initiatives in BC.
Upcoming presentation to the BC Road Builders Association
September 2015: In the early 2000s the BC Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association brought the COR program to BC. On Sept 14, Chris McLeod will present our evaluation of the program at their Fall Conference in Kelowna, BC. More about the COR program.
Presentations from BC Care Providers Conference
August 2015: Co-lead Chris McLeod’s presentation, Safety in Our DNA: How Organizational Culture is harnessed to Create Safer Work Environments, is now available, along with a full recap of the BC Care Providers conference (May 2015). Watch Chris in the video summary at minutes 2:56 and 3:21.
Does safety certification prevent tree-faller injuries?
August 2015: Our new article in Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health evaluates whether safety certification reduces the risk of work injury among experienced manual tree-fallers in BC. More
History of Asbestos in BC
June 2015: The BC Labour Heritage Centre has created a video about the use and consequences of of asbestos in BC.
WorkSafeBC Research Training Award
May 2015: Congratulations to Partnership PhD trainee Andrea Jones on her Doctoral Research Training Award from WorkSafeBC. Her project explores the effect of mental health on return to work after injury.
Organizational culture and safer work environments in long-term care homes
May 2015: Co-lead Chris McLeod spoke at the BC Care Providers conference in Whistler, BC on May 25.
