Integrated Approaches to Health and Safety in a Dynamic Construction Work Environment

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)144 enrolled

Overview

"All the Right Moves for Subcontractors" aims to improve safety, health and well-being, through the development of a communication infrastructure with supplemental tools where construction workers and company mangers (project, operations and safety) work together to collaboratively identify problems and strategies to improve their conditions of work. The intervention is grounded in the key characteristics of integrated organizational interventions to improve workers' health safety and well-being detailed in Harvard Center for Work, Health and Well-being's Implementation Guidelines (McLellan et al, 2016). The intervention involves a cyclical approach through which the research team facilitate a participatory process to identify workers' health concerns, prioritize these concerns, use an action planning process to identify and operationalize solutions, and develop a company-specific evaluation plan to measure change. We will evaluate this program by measuring safety climate, health climate, pain and injury and health behaviors.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

144

Conditions

Worker Health Work Injury Safety Climate

Interventions

All the Right Moves for SubcontractorsOTHER

"All the Right Moves for Subcontractors" aims to improve safety, health and wellbeing, through the development of a communication infrastructure with supplemental tools where construction workers and company mangers work together to collaboratively identify problems and strategies to improve their conditions of work. The intervention is grounded in the key characteristics of integrated organizational interventions to improve workers' health safety and wellbeing detailed in Harvard Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing's Implementation Guidelines (McLellan et al, 2016). The intervention involves a cyclical approach through which the research team facilitate a participatory process to identify workers' health concerns, prioritize these concerns, use an action planning process to identify and operationalize solutions, and develop a company-specific evaluation plan to measure change.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * All workers employed by the recruited contractors at the eligible worksites Exclusion Criteria: * Companies with less than 5 workers

Locations (1)

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Worker Outcomes: Injury assessed by the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire

NMQ has been applied to a wide range of occupational groups to evaluate musculoskeletal problems Scale:0-1 0:minimum 1:maximum