Thursday, March 10, 2011, marked the annual Research Day for the WorkSafeBC-CHSPR Partnership. Held at WorkSafeBC’s Richmond offices, the Research Day was an excellent opportunity for the UBC-based researchers to share research successes and interact with over 100 WorkSafeBC staff. The depth of experience and knowledge of WorkSafeBC staff is invaluable in helping us refine our work, and helps ensure that research results will be relevant to policy and practice. The Partnership team also received numerous excellent suggestions for future research projects, which we look forward to investigating in future.
The research day began with an introduction by Roberta Ellis, WorkSafeBC’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs. This introduction was followed by a plenary session that highlighted the Partnership’s research successes over the past six years, showing how research has influenced occupational health and safety policies and programs. The Partnership team also presented on current research projects on the changing nature of work in the 24/7 environment, evaluating BC’s faller certification program, serious injuries in BC, and the burden of occupational lung disease.
Plenary presentation
Koehoorn M, McLeod C. Putting research to work: Past successes and future plans. Richmond,BC: WorkSafeBC-CHSPR Partnership Research Day’ March 10, 2011.