Title of Final Report |
Principal Investigator /Applicant |
Date |
| A Case-Control Study to Identify Agricultural Chemicals Associated with Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer and In Vitro Screening of their Endocrine Disruption Activities |
Nhu Le |
Feb. 2004 |
| A Clinical Trial of a Multi-Element Exercise Program for Plantar Fasciopathy in Workers Required to Stand for Prolonged Periods of Time |
Jack Taunton |
Oct. 2012 |
| A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Ceiling Lift Coaching Project |
Hasanat Alamgir |
Dec. 2010 |
| A Multidisciplinary Study of Factors Influencing Hazard Reduction Strategies, Using Noise Exposure and Hearing Loss as a Model |
Hugh Davies
Jean Shoveller |
Oct. 2009 |
| A Pilot Study to Develop Guidelines for Reducing Tree Planter Injuries |
Ernst Stjernberg |
Mar. 2006 |
| A Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality and Cancer Incidence among Registered Nurses in British Columbia |
Helen Ward |
Jun. 2006 |
| A Review of Evaluations of Social Marketing Campaigns in Occupational Injury, Disease or Disability Prevention |
Cameron Mustard |
Feb. 2007 |
| A Test Re-test Reliability Study of the Hands-free Technique and Safety Climate Questionnaire in B.C. OR Nurses |
Elizabeth Bryce
Bernadette Stringer |
Nov. 2005 |
Acoustical Environments in VCH Health-Care Facilities, Phase 1: Measurement Tools and Pilot Studies |
Murray Hodgson (UBC) |
Dec. 2010 |
Airway Obstruction and Hypersensitivity among Young Workers: 16 Year Follow- up of Machinist and Construction Apprentices |
Susan Kennedy |
Dec. 2010 |
| An Evaluation of the Impact of the WorkSafeNB Focus Firms Intervention on reported Safety Behaviour and Injury Outcomes |
Bob Barnetson |
Mar. 2012 |
| An Intervention for Overhead Drilling into Concrete |
Stephen Robinovitch |
Feb. 2010 |
| Are Mathematical Models an Appropriate Surrogate for Exposure Monitoring when Establishing Respiratory Protective Requirements for the Clean-up of Small Indoor Chemical Spills? |
Quinn Danyluk & Chun-Yip Hon |
Jun. 2006 |
| Assessing Attitudes, Beliefs and Readiness for MSI Prevention in the Construction Industry |
Aleck Ostry
Mieke Koehoorn |
Oct. 2007 |
| Assessing Employee Safety Motivation |
Mark Fleming |
May 2012 |
| Assessing Exposures to Compost Workers from Airborne Biohazards |
Karen Bartlett |
Sep. 2009 |
| Assessment of the Efficacy of
Safety Engineered Scalpels |
Ryan Kanigan |
Mar. 2012 |
| Asthmatic Knowledge and Careers |
Susan Tarlo |
Apr. 2011 |
| Avalanche Balloon Packs – Current Status at the Canadian Workplace |
Pascal Haegeli
(Ian Tomm) |
Aug. 2012 |
| Back Injuries in Heavy Industries, Part A: Defining Back Injury Outcomes for Research Purposes |
Mieke Koehoorn
Kay Teschke |
Apr. 2007 |
| Back Injuries in Heavy Industries, Part B: Risk Factor Exposure Assessment |
Kay Teschke
Mieke Koehoorn |
Jan. 2008 |
| Beryllium Disease in BC Workers: A Pilot Surveillance Project Using Linked Administrative Data |
Tim Takaro |
Apr. 2010 |
| Biomechanical Comparison of Ankle Ligament Reconstructive Techniques |
Alastair Younger |
May 2005 |
| Breaking New Ground: Does Radon Present a Health Risk to Nova Scotia Workers? |
Helen Mersereau |
May 2009 |
| British Columbia Workplace Safety Leadership Development |
Philip Bigelow |
Aug. 2010 |
| Building a Safer Work Environment For B.C. Construction Workers |
Wayne Peppard |
Jan. 2009 |
| Building Capacity of Joint
Occupational Health and Safety Committees: Creating an Innovative Web-based Tool |
Annalee Yassi |
Jul. 2012 |
| Cancer and Lung Disease in relation to Sawfiling and Endotoxin among Sawmill Workers |
Hugh Davies & Paul Demers |
Mar. 2012 |
| Cancer and Occupational Exposure to Pentachlorophenol and Tetrachlorophenol |
Paul Demers |
Aug. 2005 |
| Carcinogen Surveillance Program |
Paul Demers |
Feb. 2007 |
| Cedar Asthma - Markers of Recovery and Severity |
Christopher Carlsten |
Oct. 2011 |
| Changing the Sheets The Slider Sheet System – Phase Two: Incorporating Lessons Learned from Phase one |
Sue Filek |
Apr. 2010 |
| Cleaning and Decontamination of Workplaces Containing Beryllium — Techniques and Cleaning Solutions |
Chantal Dion |
Apr. 2009 |
| Confined Space Atmospheric Risk Assessment |
John Meech |
Jan. 2011 |
| CPR and First Aid Skill Retention |
Gregory Anderson |
Jan. 2008 |
| Creating a Safe Client Handling
Culture in the Challenging Environment of Emergency Departments |
Martha Cloutier |
Aug. 2012 |
| Designing, Implementing, & Evaluating a Dissemination Strategy for Management of Low Mood & Depression among Employees of Pacific Blue Cross |
Elliot Goldner |
Dec. 2010 |
| Determining the Stability of Nanoparticles in Solution and Implications for Using these Materials |
Byron Gates |
Apr. 2012 |
| Developing a Remotely Operated Falling Wedge |
Kevin Lyons |
Jun. 2011 |
| Developing a Safety Climate: Shared Assumptions and Interventions |
Michael Leiter |
Feb. 2011 |
| Development and Evaluation of a Model for a Home Care Ceiling Lift Program in B.C. |
Annalee Yassi |
Apr. 2008 |
| Development and Evaluation of an Affordable Lift Device to Reduce Musculoskeletal Injuries among Home Support Workers |
Nancy Paris |
Sep. 2004 |
| Development and Piloting of an Electronic Format for Carrying out Prosthetic Evaluation using Functional Outcome Measures |
Silvia Raschke |
Jan. 2012 |
| Development of a Method for Quantifying Biomechanical Risk Factors Associated with Manual and Mechanically Assisted Patient Handling |
Annalee Yassi |
Jun. 2005 |
| Development of a Working Prototype Sling for Use with Floor and Ceiling Lifts to be used by the Veterinary Sector |
Nancy Paris |
Apr. 2005 |
| Development of an Ergonomic Syringe Adapter |
Rick Hall |
Oct. 2011 |
| Development of an Online Repository of OH&S Education and Training Resources for Healthcare: Phase 1 |
Catherine Ogden |
Nov. 2010 |
| Development of Analytical Tools to Investigate Aerosolized Cytotoxic Drugs |
Winnie Chu |
Jul. 2010 |
| Development of Descent Guidelines for Log-Hauling Vehicles (Highway Legal Configurations) |
Séamus Parker |
Jan. 2010 |
| Documenting the Economic and Quality of Life Consequences of Work Injuries for Healthcare Workers in BC |
Jaime Guzman |
Jun. 2012 |
Does Surgical Setting or Wait-time Incentive Improve Return to Work Following Knee Surgery among Injured Workers |
Mieke Koehoorn |
Nov. 2009 |
| Early Intervention with Low Back Injured Workers Who are at Risk for Work Disability |
Izabela Schultz |
May 2008 |
| Early Mobilization of Hand Fractures in B.C. |
Sam Sheps |
Nov. 2006 |
| Economic Evaluation Workbook for Workplace Parties in the Healthcare Sector |
Emile Tompa |
Dec. 2010 |
| Elevated Jackhammer Support |
Gordon Thiessen |
Jun. 2005 |
| EMG-Based Classification of Low Back Pain |
Ted Milner |
Feb. 2003 |
| Ergonomics Health Promotion for B.C. Dental Offices |
Lance Rucker |
Sep. 2006 |
| Establishing an Occupational Health and Infection Control Program in a Large Ambulatory Care Facility |
Annalee Yassi |
Apr. 2011 |
| Evaluating Methods to use the Virtual Corset™ Inclinometer for Trunk Posture and Spinal Compression Measurements |
Mieke Koehoorn |
Sep. 2010 |
| Examining the Cost-benefit of Additional Staffing in Long Term Care (LTC) Facilities |
Annalee Yassi |
May 2005 |
| Expectations of Return to Work for Injured Workers with Sub-acute Back Pain |
Richard Young |
Mar. 2010 |
| Factors that Predict Return-to-work in Workers with PTSD |
Lynn Alden |
Jan. 2012 |
| Farmworker Health and Safety: Challenges for British Columbia |
Gerardo Otero
Kerry Preibisch |
Aug. 2010 |
| Females Welding and the Unborn Child |
Nicola Cherry |
Oct. 2011 |
| Health and work Productivity Web-Portal: Knowledge to Action for Disability Prevention and Management – A Pilot Study |
Marc White |
Jun. 2012 |
| Healthcare Workers and Antineoplastic Drugs: Identifying the Determinants of Exposure and Current Challenges to Reducing Exposure |
Kay Teschke
Winnie Chu |
Apr. 2012 |
| Heart Disease Among Firefighters |
Paul Demers
Mieke Koehoorn |
Feb. 2011 |
| Heart Disease Among Paramedics |
Paul Demers
Mieke Koehoorn |
Jul. 2010 |
| Identifying Possible Work-related Lung Cancer in the Clinical Setting - Getting Started |
Linn Holness
Irena Kudla |
Jun. 2008 |
| Identifying Risk Factors of Falls among B.C.’s Healthcare Workers |
Hasanat Alamgir
Dave Keen |
Mar. 2010 |
| Identification of Potential Risk Factors for Injury to Police Officers using New Technologies |
Axel Hovbrender |
Dec. 2009 |
| Immigrant Workers' Experiences after Work-related Injury in British Columbia: Identifying Key Questions and Building Research Capacity |
Agnieszka Kosny |
Jan. 2011 |
| Implementation and Evaluation of a "Safety Culture" in Residential Care through Involvement of Front-line Workers |
Waqar Mughal |
Nov. 2007 |
| Increasing Access to Radiation Safety Training and Validating Its Effectiveness in Improving Work Practices Involving Radiation |
Emerenciana Duran |
Oct. 2008 |
| Injury Rates, Ergonomic Factors and Work Conditions associated with Musculoskeletal Injuries among School Custodians in British Columbia |
Aleck Ostry
Mieke Koehoorn |
Jun. 2007 |
| In-service Evaluation of Onboard Brake Monitoring Device for Logging Trucks |
Séamus Parker |
Jan. 2011 |
| Inter-rater Reliability Assessment of an OH&S Management Audit Tool for Healthcare |
Waqar Mughal |
Nov. 2007 |
| Investigating the Longer-term Health Consequences of Work-related Injuries among Youth |
Mieke Koehoorn |
Jul. 2006 |
| Investigation of occupational exposures to forestry workers from environmental Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii |
Karen Bartlett |
Jan. 2006 |
| In Vivo Measurements of Lumbar Mechanics from Ultrasound Imaging |
Ted Milner |
Jun. 2005 |
| Joint Prevention of Workplace Violence: Creating an Innovative Web-based Tool |
Annalee Yassi |
Dec. 2010 |
| Lift Device to Reduce Musculoskeletal Injuries among Home Support Workers in B.C. |
Nancy Paris |
Aug. 2006 |
| Long-Term Impact of Western Red Cedar Asthma on Work, Health and Quality of Life |
Helen Ward |
Apr. 2006 |
| Measuring Health Outcomes: An Empirical Comparison of Adaptive and Standard Questionnaires |
Jacek Kopec |
Jun. 2005 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of a Hand Hygiene Campaign on Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Intention to Comply with Hand Hygiene Guidelines |
Elizabeth Bryce |
Mar. 2007 |
| Mobile Equipment Safety System |
Richard Shervey |
Jun. 2011 |
| Nurses’ Experiences of Workplace Violence: Towards Effective Intervention |
Angela Henderson |
Apr. 2010 |
| Occupational Risk Identification for Ovarian Cancer |
Nhu Le |
Dec. 2006
Nov. 2004 |
| On-Water Visibility Study: Determining the most visible colour that can be worn by floating subjects |
Wendell Uglene |
Aug. 2011 |
| Optimization of Ultrasound Guided Hyperosmolar Dextrose Injection Therapy for Chronic Tendinopathy |
Jack Taunton |
Oct. 2009 |
| Outcome Assessment of Clinical Practice Guidelines in the Medical and Chiropractic Management of Patients with Acute Mechanical Lower Back Pain: A Randomized Control Trial |
Paul Bishop |
Nov. 2007 |
| Parkinson’s Disease: Workplace Risk Factors |
Kay Teschke |
Sept. 2011 |
| Population-based Survey of Beliefs about Neck and Upper Extremity Injuries: Prelude to social marketing campaigns designed to reduce disability |
Robert Ferrari |
Nov. 2007 |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Hospital Emergency Room Personnel |
Lynn Alden |
Nov. 2005 |
| Preventing Needle-stick Injuries and the Use of Dental Safety Syringes |
Mel Sawyer |
Oct. 2010 |
| Radon in British Columbia Work Places |
Raymond Copes |
Nov. 2009 |
| Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of Selective Nerve Root Blockade (SNRB) in Acute Lumbar Disc Herniation and Sciatica |
Maziar Badii |
Nov. 2006 |
| Recurrence of Work-related Low
Back Injuries: The Association between Patient Self-report and Indemnity-based Assessments |
Douglas Gross |
Nov. 2012 |
| Reducing Cytotoxic Drug Exposure in Healthcare: Determinants Influencing Cleaning Effectivess |
Prescillia Chua
Winnie Chu |
Mar. 2008 |
| Resource Road Safety Assessment - Pilot Project on Mobile Mapping Systems |
Douglas Bennett |
Jun. 2011 |
| Safeguarding our Indigenous Communities: Measuring the health and safety culture of Aboriginal fire crews and emergency service personnel in British Columbia |
Brent Langlois |
May 2012 |
| Shift Work, Light-at-night, and Melatonin: Characterizing a new Cancer-related Occupational Exposure |
Marilyn Borugian |
Jun. 2005 |
| Shiftwork Practise in British Columbia |
Ralph Mistlberger |
Jul. 2004 |
| Strengthening N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Protection Programs by Evaluating the Contribution of Each of the Program Elements |
Quinn Danyluk
Chun-Yip Hon |
Oct. 2011 |
| Summative Evaluation of the Fish Safe Stability Education Program: A Multifaceted Approach |
Barbara Howe |
May 2009 |
| Sustaining Health Care Professionals during Pandemic Influenza: A Pre-incident Pilot Project |
David Kuhl |
Sep. 2007 |
| Systematic Review of Process & Implementation of Participatory Ergonomic (PE) Interventions: Stakeholder Engagement |
Dwayne Van Eerd |
May 2008 |
| Taking Care of Those Who Care: Assessing Organizational and Individual Stress Management Interventions for Anti-violence Workers |
Janice Abbott |
Nov. 2010 |
| Tendinosis and Tendon Regeneration: Roles of Apoptosis and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I |
Karim Khan |
Apr. 2009 |
| Tendinosis and Tendon Regeneration: Roles of Apoptosis and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I |
Vincent Duronio
Karim Khan |
Jan. 2005 |
| Testing Remotely Operated Hydraulic Flange Spreaders for Manual Tree Falling |
Kevin C. Lyons |
Jan. 2011 |
| The Alberta Back Pain Initiative Study: Evaluation of a Population Based Social Marketing Intervention for the Prevention of Disability Associated with Back Pain |
Douglas Gross |
Sep. 2009 |
| The Effect of Subject Awareness in Assessing the Probability of Slip and Fall Accidents |
Gunter Siegmund |
May 2005 |
| The Effectiveness of Current Fire Fighter Rapid Intervention Teams |
James Carter |
Jan. 2010 |
| The Effectiveness of Joint Health and Safety Committees: A Systematic Review |
Annalee Yassi |
Feb. 2012 |
| The Prevalence, Nature and Risks of Voice Problems in Teachers |
Linda Rammage |
Mar. 2003 |
| The use of Induced Sputum as an Additional Diagnostic Indicator of an Asthmatic Reaction to Red Cedar after Specific Inhalation Challenge Testing |
Raja Abboud |
Mar. 2008 |
| Trace Metal and Pesticide Exposure in Tree Planting British Columbia |
Hugh Davies
Ernst Stjernberg |
May 2009 |
| Tracking BBF Exposures: The Implementation of the Exposure Prevention Information Network (EPINet™) System at VIHA |
Philip Bigelow |
Jul. 2006 |
| Training, Dissemination & Evaluation of a Depression Self-care Tool Delivered to Injured Employees |
Joti Samra, Elliot Goldner |
Jul.
2011 |
| Training for a Non-toxic Workplace |
Mae Burrows |
Mar. 2008 |
| Ultrasound Guided Dextrose Injections as a New Treatment for Chronic Overuse Tendon Injuries |
Jack Taunton |
Nov. 2007 |
| Using Remotely Operated Jacks to Fall Dangerous Trees |
Kevin Lyons |
Oct. 2008 |
| Using Social Marketing to Increase Occupational Health and Safety |
Anne Lavack |
Aug. 2008 |
| WorkSmart: A Warehouse Safety Video and Curriculum for Employees with Developmental Disabilities |
Kirsti Inglis |
Nov. 2008 |
| Who Works Where? Building Occupational Research Capacity in the B.C. Linked Health Database |
Mieke Koehoorn |
Jun. 2005 |
| Working Safe in Aboriginal Communities |
Charles Horn |
Dec. 2008 |
| Workplace Emergency Planning Inclusive of People with Disabilities |
Margaret Birrell |
Jun. 2008 |
| Workplace Injury Management: Using New Technology to Deliver and Evaluate Physician Continuing Medical Education |
Harry Karlinsky |
Jul. 2005 |
| WorkSafeBC Benefits Study Report 1: The Impact of Bill 49 on Benefits Adequacy and Equity |
Emile Tompa |
Jul. 2011 |
