| Year Funded: 2011 | Budget: $88,466 | Funding Agency: WCB Manitoba |
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| Title: | Development of a Provincial Workplace Exposure Database for Manitoba | |
| Category: | Transferring Research Knowledge to the Workplace | |
| Subcategory: | How Research can be Transformed | |
| Keywords: | carcinogens, hazards, exposure, cancer research, electronic data | |
| Link to research website: | https://www.wcb.mb.ca/sites/default/files/resources/DAVIES%20FINAL%20REPORT%2031JUL2014.pdf | |
Issue:
The data mining exercise is intended to benefit future workers compensation trends and prevention in Manitoba and the rest of the country.
Objectives:
This project was to transfer occupational exposure data held by the Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Division (WSHD) into electronic format.
Anticipated Results:
• WSHD would benefit from having their data in a more convenient usable form for their own use;
• WSHD would be able to obtain better CAREX Canada estimates of provincial carcinogen hazards that would support policy development to regulate these substances and/or eliminate or reduce exposures;
• Prevention efforts could be targeted to groups at high risk of carcinogen exposure;
• Priorities for future cancer research could be determined; and
• Current and future numbers of cancer cases likely to be associated with past workplace exposure to carcinogens could be predicted.
Investigators:
Hugh W. Davies, CAREX Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
