IRSST - Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail

Conditions and process of change during outside OHS interventions: development of tools for practitioners

Abstract

A model explaining preventive OHS interventions, developed during a previous study, identified various aspects that help to explain the adoption of changes in the workplace, following external prevention interventions. Several of these aspects are social and organizational, rather than technical. Practitioners develop practical knowledge that is still not extensively integrated into the training of OHS professionals, and hence the interest in providing external practitioners with the tools for analyzing these aspects of the interventions.

Four tools were created in collaboration with a group of practitioners from joint sector-based associations and occupational health teams from the public network: a log book, a tool for analyzing the intervention context, a roadmap, and an intervention assessment tool. These tools support prevention organizations and external OHS practitioners in decisions to improve the effectiveness of the interventions. They can also be used to meet a need for knowledge transfer between experienced practitioners and their colleagues.

Additional Information

Type: Project
Number: 0099-4370
Status: Completed
Year of completion: 2009
Team:
  • Geneviève Baril-Gingras (Université Laval)
  • Marie Bellemare (Université Laval)