| Year Funded: 2010 | Budget: | Funding Agency: Institute for Work & Health (IWH), Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario |
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| Title: | Leading Indicators from Occupational Health & Safety Audit Data (IWH Project 1190) | |
| Category: | Intervention Research | |
| Subcategory: | Intervention Research | |
| Keywords: | occupational health and safety, audit tools, prevention | |
| Link to research website: | www.iwh.on.ca | |
Issue:
The development of leading OHS indicators for use across many workplaces is an ongoing challenge. This project will analyze data already collected through an audit program in order to develop metrics predictive of later firm claim experience. This work will make a unique contribution to the research literature by contributing information on the predictive validity of OHS management audit data.
Objectives:
The goals of this project are:
• to determine whether OHS management audit items naturally group together to form a single metric or multiple metrics,
• to determine how predictive audit metric(s) are of later firm claim experience,
• to make recommendations, based on data analyses and expert opinion, toward the development of a short version of the audit instrument.
Anticipated Results:
This project will be of interest to occupational health and safety professionals.
Investigators:
Lynda Robson, Benjamin C. Amick III, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Ivan Steenstra, Dwayne Van Eerd (Institute for Work & Health)
