Completing the journey

“It's Just a Checklist”

“…We explore the way people interpret their work experiences and the meaning they attribute to them. Flexibility in the research design was maintained to allow accurate meanings and patterns to be identified through thematic analysis from participants' narrative interviews 21,22 …”

“…Transcripts were first coded for key themes that emerged in the data using an inductive approach without fitting the data into any preexisting categories. The step-by-step analysis included getting familiar with the data, using the research questions to highlight data, creating a code for each meaning unit, clustering the coded meaning units, discovering patterns (what was happening), relating the patterns to the research questions, and looking for the emergence of overarching themes 21 . In addition to group themes through consensus with respect to the patterns of shared meanings, we also used a deductive approach in the final step to group themes related to “current OH&S practices,” “the Canadian work environment,” and “new immigrant workers.” 23 The final set of themes and subthemes derived from participants' narratives describes the principal interrelated factors that affect OH&S in the Albertan work environment.…”