Providing evidence that supports the reduction of serious work injuries and illnesses and that reduces disability duration is a cross-cutting focus of Partnership research. Our current areas of focus include:
- Evaluation of occupational health and safety programs and regulations, such as the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario’s return to work policies and practices in the construction sector, WorkSafeBC’s Certificate of Recognition audit program and an occupational health and safety practices survey in the long-term care and food processing sectors.
- Development of a national and international comparative research agenda.
- Identification of gender and sex differences in the risk of work injury, compensation policy, and return to work.
More about our overall research program and goals.
Recent publications
Risk of violence among healthcare staff and return-to-work outcomes
Thesis
Choi K.
Vancouver: The University of British Columbia; 2018.
Return-to-work for multiple jobholders with a work-related musculoskeletal disorder: A population-based, matched cohort in British Columbia
Journal article
Maas E, McLeod C, Koehoorn M.
PLOS ONE 13(4): e0193618.
Identifying return-to-work trajectories using sequence analysis in a cohort of workers with work-related musculoskeletal disorders
Journal article
McLeod C, Reiff E, Maas E, Bultmann U.
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. 2017. [Online-first article]
Immigration Status and Work Disability Duration in British Columbia
Thesis
Saffari N.
Vancouver: The University of British Columbia; 2016.
A systematic literature review of the effectiveness of occupational health and safety regulatory enforcement
Journal article
Tompa E, Kalcevich C, Foley M, McLeod C, Hogg-Johnson S, Cullen K, MacEachen E, Irvin E, Mahood Q.
American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2016 Nov;59(11):919-933.
Immigration Status and Work Disability Duration in British Columbia, Canada
Research poster [192 KB]
Saffari N, Koehoorn M, McLeod C. Epidemiology in Occupational Health Conference (EPICOH). Barcelona, Spain: Sept. 5-8, 2016.
