May 2026: Along with hosting the conference, PWHS researchers will give four presentations at the 7th International Work Disability Prevention and Integration (WDPI) Conference, May 12-15, 2026 at UBC.

April 2026: On April 28, 2026, workers, families, and employers gather at commemorative ceremonies to honour the workers who lost their lives last year due to workplace injury and disease and renew our commitment to creating healthy and safe workplaces for everyone. These ceremonies provide a moment to pause, reflect, and recognize the ongoing importance of our work in health and safety, and to reaffirm our shared commitment to preventing future harm.

April 2026: The the preliminary program for the 7th International Work Disability Prevention and Integration (WDPI) Conference is now posted at https://wdpi2026.ca/.

April 2026: Two new papers are published based on our evaluation of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)’s Health and Safety Excellence program in Ontario.

July 2025: Chris McLeod, PWHS Director, and Lindsey Richardson, Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Sociology, are co-principal investigators on a successful CIHR project grant focused on reducing substance-use related harm among people working in construction and trades in BC. In the context of the ongoing, intractable challenges linked to drug use and drug-related harm, people working in construction and trades bear a disproportionate burden of this harm, and there is a lack of published, action-oriented research in this area. The work funded by this grant will fill critical research and knowledge mobilization gaps.

June 2025: Congratulations to Chizitara Nkwopara, a recent MSc OEH graduate, and Harman Sandhu, a current MSc OEH student, who received the Best Student Oral Presentation Awards at this year’s conference.