| Year Funded: 2010 | Budget: $59,974.00 | Funding Agency: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario |
|---|---|---|
| Title: | Economic Evaluation of Health and Safety Programs: A Training Workshop for Workplace Parties | |
| Category: | Compensation, Disability Management and Return to Work | |
| Subcategory: | Compensation, Disability Management and Return to Work | |
| Keywords: | Health and Safety, Economic Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Training Workshop | |
| Link to research website: | www.iwh.on.ca | |
Issue:
There is a need to train workplace parties—managers, labour representatives, and health and safety practitioners—on methods of economic evaluation of H&S initiatives. The project develops a series of workshops for this purpose.
Objectives:
To develop workshop content the researchers will undertake in-depth interviews with workplace parties to get insights into the H&S decisions they confront, the challenges they face when making decisions, the analyses they currently do, and the information resources they currently access to assist with decisions. The project’s objectives are:
1. To increase awareness of the need to consider the cost and consequences of health and safety initiatives systematically, comprehensively, and on an ongoing basis;
2. To advance knowledge about sound economic evaluation methods for health and safety initiatives;
3. To increase the comfort level and ability to apply economic evaluation methods in workplaces; and
4. To stimulate dialogue and discussion, in workshop breakout session, about overcoming barriers to undertaking in-house health and safety economic evaluations.
Anticipated Results:
To develop and deliver a training workshop for workplace parties—managers, labour representatives, and health and safety practitioners—on economic evaluation methods for health and safety initiatives.
Investigators:
Emile Tompa (Institute for Work & Health), Kim Grant, Kiran Kapoor (Workplace Safety & Prevention Services), Lynda Robson, Kiera Keown, Emma Irvin (Institute for Work & Health)
