Dancing the two-step: Collaborating with intermediary organizations as research partners to help implement workplace health and safety interventions

Work

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 321-332

  Kramer, Desre M ^a   Wells, Richard P ^a   Bigelow, Phillip L ^a   Carlan, Niki A ^a   Cole, Donald C ^a,b,c   Hepburn, C Gail ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

collaborative research; Knowledge transfer and exchange; knowledge utilization; prevention of musculoskeletal disorders; workplace intervention research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COOPERATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RESEARCH; SAFETY;

CANADA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RESEARCH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77956308021     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2010-1033     Document Type: Article

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