The Centre for Workplace Health and Safety contributes to the research on the sustainability of organizations and communities. Its aim is to increase the safety, health and welfare of employees and, by extension, the safety, health and welfare of those who are impacted by safety issues in the workplace: family members, employers, customers, suppliers, and nearby communities.
Focusing on West Coast industries (fisheries, forestry, mining, wood product manufacturing, construction, and transportation), the Centre will address the human resource management aspects of health and safety in order to provide a missing complement to other approaches to occupational health and safety such as epidemiology, kinesiology, and ergonomics.
Using a collaborative, interdisciplinary and solution-oriented approach, the Centre will
- generate knowledge that has an applied impact on workplace safety;
- conduct collaborative and multidisciplinary research to capture diversity in approaches and intervention methods;
- provide training and education to the academic and practitioner communities; and
- disseminate evidence-based knowledge to the academic community, practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders.
The Centre has initial sponsorship funding from CN Rail and WorkSafeBC and is housed at the Segal Graduate School of Business.