Worker participation in change processes in a Danish industrial setting

Abstract

Implementation of a comprehensive intervention was followed by improved employee perceptions of the company's safety standards and the psychosocial work environment, as well as by substantial reductions in the incidence of eczema and occupational accidents.

Using community‐based participatory research to design and initiate a study on immigrant worker health and safety in San Francisco's Chinatown restaurants

“…Although occupational health has a long and varied tradition of worker participation [Wallerstein and Weinger, 1992;Rasmussan et al, 2006], the involvement of workers as genuine research partners tends to be more recent [Israel et al, 1989]. Yet as several earlier studies [Israel et al, 1989;Arcury et al, 1999Arcury et al, , 2001Lee and Krause, 2002;Lee et al, 2008] have suggested, CBPR with low-wage, largely immigrant, or minority workers may improve the quality of our research by complementing academic concerns with rigor and reliability with community concerns about the local relevance and coherence in all stages of the research, including the development of the research question, the appropriateness of sampling, recruitment and instrument design, and the interpretation, dissemination and use of findings.…”

Using Facebook for Health Promotion in “Hard-to-Reach” Truck Drivers: Qualitative Analysis (Preprint)

“…The findings paper for this project (published elsewhere) demonstrates contextualisation of interventions is pivotal to achieving workplace culture change and improvements in health knowledge and behaviour in the participating truck drivers. This is an effect seen in other health promotion interventions in blue-collar workplaces [42,43,[50][51][52][53]. Future projects should seek to engage participants to a greater extent in the design of a social media health promotion intervention.…”

Dancing between theory and practice: Enhancing work engagement through work stress intervention

“…In that sense, the process of action research can be generalized to other companies interested in this process. We believe that this approach has shown its strength to improve the psychosocial factors at work (see previous empirical studies of -Participatory -ActionResearch, such as Heaney, et al, 1993;Huxham & Vangen, 2003;LeBlanc, Hox, Schaufeli, Taris & Peeters, 2007;Pasmore & Friedlander, 1982;Rasmussen, et al, 2006;Whyte, 1989;see Dollard, LeBlanc & Cotton, 2008, for a review). So we should take its use into account when designing a WSI.…”