Research Project Summary

Year Funded: 2010 Budget: $92,390 Funding Agency: Workers’ Compensation Board of Manitoba (WCB)
Title: Young Worker Responses to Workplace Hazards, Responsibility for Safety and Workplace Injuries Across Time
Category: Changing Nature of Work and Work Environment
Subcategory: Changing Nature of Work and Work Environment
Keywords: young workers, health and safety, workplace hazards, prevention, safety awareness programs
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Issue:

This project will explore how young workers respond to hazards in the workplace.

Objectives:

• To increase knowledge about the way young worker safety attitudes, safety behaviors and workplace injuries change over time
• To identify predictors that influence taking responsibility for safety, including parental attitudes, quality of job supervision and characteristics of the work performed

Anticipated Results:

This study will provide information that will assist in the design of injury prevention and safety awareness programs for young workers

Investigators:

Sean Tucker (University of Regina)