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Industrial Ergonomics and Occupational
Health and Safety - Dr John F. Culvenor, PhD |
Policy and Research
This area of my work is of a broad nature
concerning policy and research. Recent
examples include:
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Workplace Health and Safety in the
Construction Industry, a discussion paper available in the publications page
released by the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry.
·
Work-Related Fatalities Prevention Project.
See a paper titled Work Related Fatalities Prevention Project in
the publications section.
See two Victorian
WorkCover Authority documents that followed this project: Health and safety in forest operations: recommended
practices; and Working safely with trees: recommended practices for the
amenity tree industry.
I hold an honorary appointment as Senior
Research Fellow at
·
Evaluation of the Victorian Nurse Back
Injury Prevention Project, being conducted by
Work performed in the past includes:
·
Evaluation of Health and Safety
Representative Training in
This project was
conducted for the WorkCover
Corporation of South Australia.
The report is available
via the WorkCover website or here in the publications page.
A paper was recently
published about this evaluation: Culvenor, J., Cowley, S. & Harvey, J.
2003, ‘Impact of Training of Health and Safety Representatives on Concepts of
Accident Causation and Prevention’, Journal of Occupational Health and
Safety - Australia and New Zealand, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 279-292. This paper is available in the publications page.
·
Occupational Health and Safety Priorities
for the
This project was funded
by the Australian
Coal Association Research Program.
The report is available
via the ACARP website or here in the publications page.
·
Information about other research
publications can be seen on the publications page.