Phase 2
Research Objectives - Doing the research
- Promoting exchanges between researchers and stakeholders throughout the process
- Providing researchers with practical knowledge
- Providing stakeholders with knowledge
- Sharing preliminary results
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This second phase is the actual research. According to the network-based framework of practice, the generation of new knowledge should be the subject of exchanges throughout the research process. This means benefiting from the stakeholders network’s expertise while at the same time providing it with information throughout the study so that it is better able to collaborate in the adaptation, dissemination and possible application of the results.
 Lift truck research program
Lift trucks cause many serious and even fatal accidents. Faced with this situation, researchers from the IRSST and three universities as well as their partners decided to improve knowledge in order to reduce the risks associated with the use of these very prevalent vehicles in workplaces. A research program on lift truck rollover and the prevention of collisions was proposed and accepted. A support network promoting safe and ergonomic interventions of lift trucks users (SISEC) was then established in order to follow all of the activities of the research projects on lift trucks and to guide exchanges between the researchers and the workplaces in order to identify all the new issues and to determine solutions for improving the means of protecting the lift truck operator. | From the standpoint of knowledge translation, this phase has two steps that have an impact on each other, namely that of analysis of the correspondence between the expected results of the research and the initial needs and issues (step 2) and the actual step of generating new knowledge (step 3). This involves associating the stakeholders with the research, and maintaining throughout the research project the most perfect correspondence possible between the research work and the initial needs and issues. We believe that the more the stakeholders are associated with the research projects, the more they will be able to appropriate the results and have them disseminated within their own networks.
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