Speakers at the Institute for Work and Health Plenary are John Oudyk, Andrew King and Alan Hall, The Labour/OHCOW/Academic Research Collaboration (LOARC).
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Dr Ashley McAllister (Karolinska Institute) will share results of a Study based in Australia and Ontario on the challenges of “Designing disability income support policy for mental illness”. She outlines five main challenges and considers the ramifications of ignoring them — including…
Topic: Pre-post evaluation of an integrated RTW planning program in workers’ compensation assessment clinics. Featured speaker at the Institute for Work and Health Plenary is Dr. Aaron Thompson from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
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During the During Global Ergonomics Month, hear from Brian McInnes, provincial ergonomist at the Ontario Ministry of Labour on the types of ergonomics analyses they perform, the different components of their ergonomics-related field visits, and the options they have for enforcement.
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In this Institute for Work & Health plenary presenters Dr. Agnieszka Kosny, Dr. Basak Yanar and Dina Al-khooly summarize a recent study investigating how newcomers come to understand their rights and where there are gaps in resources and training. They offer suggestions…
Dr. Paul Demers (Occupational Cancer Research Centre; Cancer Care Ontario) will discuss key findings from the recently released report report,
Burden of Occupational Cancer in Ontario: Major Workplace Carcinogens and Prevention of Exposure. Providing evidence about the most important occupational risk factors…
By the year 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Institute for Work & Health researchers Emma Irvin, Dr. Kim Cullen, Dr. Dwayne Van Eerd discuss findings from a recent systematic review…
“Towards a better understanding of differences in the risk of workplace violence for men and women in Canada”: IWH Speaker series presentation by Peter Smith, Institute for Work & Health, will discuss results from two recently completed studies examining differences in the…
How well does compensation claims data capture actual injury trends? Research in several different jurisdictions has suggested that workers’ compensation claims data represents only a fraction of actual injuries at work. A recent study examined whether a similar pattern of under-reporting exists…
We currently do not know what proportion of workplace violence incidents in Ontario are captured by each hospital’s reporting system, and lack information on reasons for not reporting these incidents. Dr. Peter Smith discusses findings from a survey in late 2017 of…
