This report presents the results of a study on the costs of work stress from an organizational point of view. The specific objectives of this project are to:

1. compile an inventory of documents on the internal organizational costs of work stress;

2. draw up a list of work stress cost indicators...

Researcher: Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

Work-related mental health problems have become a great concern and many organizations want to develop in-house programs to prevent them. Currently, very little is known about local initiatives taken by organizations to manage mental health in the workplace. The aim of this study is to examine the prevention...

Researcher: Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

For about twenty years, the construction industry has been the subject of many studies and the CSST has increased and varied the types of intervention in order to reduce the risks of occupational accidents. These efforts...

Researcher: Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

Studies of the Chair in Mental Health At Work identify, among other things, the lack of recognition from co-workers and supervisors as a risk factor most strongly associated with a high level of psychological distress. In a context...

Researcher: Jean-Pierre Brun (U.Laval)

It has long been accepted that technical expertise is a prerequisite for successful prevention interventions. This study, the result of nine months of workplace observation in the sawmill, pulp and paper, and panel board sectors...

Researchers: Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval), Clermont Bégin (U. Laval)

In a context of technological, economic and organizational change, the activities of prevention specialists are becoming more complex. In their search for more effective prevention, joint sector-based...

Researchers: Danièle Champoux (IRSST), Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

Since each small company adopts its own unique approach to occupational health and safety (OHS) management, the IRSST is collaborating with the joint sector-based associations of the garment and metal...

Researchers: Danièle Champoux (IRSST), Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

The important role of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in job creation and economic activity has been largely demonstrated. However, these establishments, in particular those employing fewer than...

Researchers: Danièle Champoux (IRSST), Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

Despite the large number of small businesses (SBs) employing fewer than 50 workers and their contribution to the economy, occupational safety management in these workplaces has not been widely studied. Various sources conclude that workers...

Researchers: Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval), Danièle Champoux (IRSST)

Small businesses with less than 50 workers (SBs), the main job creators in Quebec, have difficulties managing occupational health and safety (OHS). A unique approach to the problem is needed, which is characterized by the isolation of employers,...

Researchers: Maurice Gosselin (U. Laval), Jean-Pierrre Brun (U. Laval)

Even though occupational injuries represent economic issues for companies, workers and society in general, OHS specialists still have a difficult task in measuring the benefits and costs of programs to improve occupational health and safety in companies. The first part of this...

Researchers: Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval), Michel Vézina (U. Laval), Richard Gagnon (U. Laval), Michel Lavoie (U. Laval)

The first phase of this project characterized the relationship between occupational qualification and the nature of accidents among carpenters-joiners and electricians in two regions, taking into account...

Researchers: Geneviève Baril-Gingras (U. Laval), Marie Bellemare (IRSST), Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval)

In their prevention efforts, organizations are resorting to external interventions such as those of joint sector-based associations (ASPs). However, ASPs, like organizations, are considering how to integrate these...

Researchers: Renée Bourbonnais (U. Laval), Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval), Richard Gagnon (U. Laval), Pierre Joubert (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Laval), Michel Lavoie (U. Laval), Michel Vézina (U. Laval)

This project was undertaken to identify the factors underlying...

Researchers: Renée Bourbonnais (U. Laval), Jean-Pierre Brun (U. Laval), Richard Gagnon (U. Laval), Pierre Joubert (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Laval), Michel Lavoie (U. Laval), Michel Vézina (U. Laval)

Although training programs are offered to workers and management in the mining sector, the determinants of these...

Researcher: Marie Bellemare (U. Laval)

For ten years, the IRSST has taken a particular interest in integrating occupational health and safety considerations into the design of new tools, machines and equipment. Some of these projects sought to understand the design process itself....

Researchers: Marie Bellemare (U. Laval), Sylvie Montreuil (U. Laval)

In recent years, the IRSST's ergonomists have taken an active interest in participatory ergonomics, an approach based on the capacity of an organization's members to take action on hazardous work situations. This IRSST-Université Laval joint study...

Researcher: Marie Bellemare (U. Laval)

How should action be taken, right from the design stage, to develop work situations that respect workers' health while meeting production criteria? This document describes a study of the use of simulation techniques as a method to transform two driver's cabs in industrial vehicles...

Researcher: Marie Bellemare (U. Laval)

The CSST has undertaken pilot projects in various regions of Quebec aimed at helping workplaces manage the prevention of repetitive strain injuries (RSI). This project was conducted in a plant specialized in rubber extrusion trimming....

Researchers: Danièle Champoux (IRSST), Marguerite-Michelle Côté (IRSST)

The garment industry is still one of the largest job sectors in Quebec with more than 40 000 workers in 1992. It is also a sector in which health and safety problems are a great concern. The researchers' hypothesis was that...

Researcher: Danièle Champoux

The Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail du secteur de la fabrication de produits en métal et de produits électriques (joint occupational health and safety association, metal products and electrical products manufacturing...

Researchers: Danièle Champoux (IRSST), Esther Cloutier (IRSST)

In 1995-1996, at the request of the Association paritaire du secteur affaires municipales, the IRSST's Work Organization Research Program analyzed all the accidents suffered by firefighters in Quebec's two largest municipalities in 1992. The study describes the accidents...

Researcher: Fernande Lamonde (U. Laval)

This publication describes the approach implemented to integrate occupational health and safety and ergonomics into a plant design project. The approach was developed by examining the activity of two prevention specialists and the ergonomist involved in this project....

Researchers: Madeleine Bourdouxhe (IRSST), Danièle Champoux (IRSST)

This study examines 357 construction-site accidents which occurred on the Island of Montréal between August 1984 and April 1985. The following data were collected during separate interviews with the victims and their foreman: the nature...

Researchers: Danièle Champoux, Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Detailed analysis of the types and immediate causes of injuries indicated the need to investigate the circumstances surrounding these accidents. Using information gathered in telephone interviews of 230 accident victims...

Researchers: Sylvie Montreuil (U. Laval), Louis Trudel (U. Laval)

A training program was designed to help support staff using computers recognize postural and visual constraints and take action to reduce them. This research project evaluated the effects of the training program in terms of the actions taken...

Researcher: Sylvie Montreuil (U. Laval)

This study assessed the extent of industrial accidents and musculoskeletal problems based on this industry's production characteristics in order to identify the research themes and the preventive actions to be implemented. Three types of data were used: the accident...

Researchers: Danièle Champoux (IRSST), Esther Cloutier (IRSST)

A previous study of health and safety concerns associated with firefighting (IRSST Project 95-039) recommended the development of a new accident report form designed specifically for firefighting accidents....

Researcher: Marie Bellemare (U. Laval)

Projects aimed at modernizing industrial production systems are also excellent opportunities for reducing occupational hazards. One way to achieve this is to integrate prevention into the design process. The poultry-slaughtering sector is characterized by a high incidence of m...

Researchers: Marie Bellemare (U. Laval), Denis Giguère (IRSST), Christian Larue (IRSST), Sylvie Beaugrand (IRSST))

In ergonomics, visual information gathering by workers can be vital for work performance and can be useful in preventing serious accidents or musculoskeletal...

Researchers: Sylvie Montreuil (U. Laval), Louis Trudel (U. Laval), Chantal Brisson (U. Laval)

A training program was designed to help support staff using computers recognize postural and visual constraints and take action to reduce them. This research project evaluated the effects of the training program...