Issue:
There has been a interest in Ontario in developing a knowledge base for leading indicators of occupational health and safety (OHS) performance. Despite this growing knowledge base and growing awareness of the importance of transferring research to practice in OHS, little attention has been paid to whether this information is in fact applied to organizational decision making.
Objectives:
• To determine how organizational leaders use the benchmarking data in making OHS decisions.
• To identify the facilitators and barriers to using the benchmarking data and how can this be improved, and what other types of information leaders use to inform OHS decisions.
Anticipated Results:
The results of this research are directly relevant to all stakeholders in Ontario, including WSIB, MOL, and the HSAs. This is an active collaboration with the Workplace Safety and Prevention Services (WSPS) and Public Services Health and Safety Association (PSHSA). The WSPS will help develop a dashboard using the information from OLIP, and the PSHSA will help develop an app for using the OPM and a series of follow-on games to engage leaders and the organization in a decision-making process to improve OHS.
Investigators:
Ben Amick, Dwayne Van Eerd, Colette Severin, I Lambraki, J Village
