Partnership news

Webinar: Health Care Safety Professionals Association of BC

May 2016: Chris McLeod will give a webinar on the role of leading and lagging indicators in violence prevention in health care to the Health Care Safety Professionals Association of BC on Friday May 20. Learn more about our work in this area

Trudeau announces Canada “moving forward” on asbestos ban

May 2016: Pleased to see that Canada is now moving toward a ban on asbestos. Learn more about our work on asbestos exposure and mesothelioma

MSFHR Scholar Award to Chris McLeod

May 2016: Our co-director Chris McLeod is a 2016 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Program award recipient for his comparative and cross-jurisdictional research on work and health. More about our work in this area.

Labor markets and health: an integrated life course perspective

May 2016: New article in Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health from our co-director Chris McLeod and visiting scholar Ute Bültmann on integrating a life course perspective into work and health research.

Does time off work after injury vary by jurisdiction?

May 2016: New article in BMJ Open related to our international comparative work: Does time off work after injury vary by jurisdiction? A comparative study of eight Australian workers’ compensation systems. Learn more about this work.

Study finds COR employers have lower rates of serious injuries than those not in program

April 2016: Our COR audit evaluation is featured in the Institute for Work & Health At Work newsletter.

Will you be ready if COR becomes mandatory?

April 2016: Our COR audit program evaluation mentioned in an article in construction sector magazine On-Site.

Public Talk – Work in Life: Work and Health in a Life-Course Perspective

April 2016: International Visiting Research Scholar Dr. Ute Bültmann will give a public talk at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC on May 18, 2016.

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.

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