Health and Safety
Labour OHCOW Academic Research Collaboration
(LOARC)
Union health and safety activists,
health and safety professionals and university-based researchers have come
together with a common concern that research agendas in occupational health and
safety are too removed from the experience of workers and their abilities to
alter the conditions in which they work.
The goal of LOARC is to improve
working conditions and health for workers through fostering research
collaboration across unions, occupational health and safety professionals and
university researchers.
The objectives of the coalition are
to
1. Provide unique
opportunities to collaboration between workers, their unions, occupational
health and safety professionals and academic researchers
2. Effect changes at work
that will promote worker health, safety and wellbeing.
3. Use our skills more
effectively and develop relationships
4. Improve effectiveness
of prevention practices by engaging workers through their unions in
priorities, decisions and implementation.
Organizing/Coordinating
Committee:
Chair: Andy King, United
Steelworkers
Terri Aversa, OPSEU
Nick DeCarlo, CAW
Alex Farquhar, OHCOW
Alan Hall, University of
Windsor
Wayne Lewchuk, McMaster
University
Laura Lozanski, CAUT
Syed Naqvi, OHCOW
Robert Storey, McMaster
University
Events:
McMasterTeach-In: Tuesday May 25,
2010 at McMaster University more...
Joint RAACWI/LOARC
Teach-In: Toronto March 31, 2011,
more...
NEW!!! Teach-In # 3 “Stopping the spread of psychosocial hazards at work in Quebec and Ontario”
at University of Ottawa, October 24/25, 2011
more...
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