Characteristics of Effective Job Health and Safety Committees

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管广泛倡导和使用工人管理工作健康和安全委员会（HSC），令人惊讶的是，很少有经验证据表明委员会的特点，使他们更有效。这项建议是基于一个新成立的NIOSH资助的中心，促进健康的新英格兰工作场所在康涅狄格大学健康中心。它有三个主要目标：（1）描述制造业健康和安全委员会的现行结构和职能，（2）通过定性和定量方法评估与委员会成员感知的有效性相关的委员会特征，以及报告的伤害和疾病率水平，以及（3）评估健康和安全委员会是否适合作为未来干预研究的平台，这些研究涉及参与性方法，以提高委员会的有效性。该研究使用了几个补充数据来源：（1）与50名HSC成员的访谈，（2）对500家制造业HSC公司的调查，（3）CT工人赔偿委员会的行政记录，包括500家公司的检查清单和HSC委员会会议记录，以及（4）1995 - 2004年工人赔偿的首次受伤率报告。将比较HSC的特征，包括（a）委员会成员和结构，（B）委员会的重要性，（c）工人参与，（d）管理承诺和资源，以及（e）委员会活动与HSC自我评估的有效性和伤害和疾病率，以了解导致更有效的委员会的特征。工作健康与安全委员会（HSC）是工人管理委员会，旨在减少工作场所的工伤和疾病。本研究旨在更好地了解HSC的特征（如成员，活动和沟通），使他们或多或少有效。预计这些信息将导致干预措施，以提高HSC的有效性，从而减少与工作有关的伤害和疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite widespread advocacy for and use of worker-management job health and safety committees (HSC), there is surprisingly very little empirical evidence on characteristics of committees that make them more effective. This proposal is based within a newly formed NIOSH-funded Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace at the University of Connecticut Health Center. It has three primary objectives: (1) to describe the current structure and functions of health and safety committees in the manufacturing sector, (2) to assess by both qualitative and quantitative methods the characteristics of committees that are associated with perceived effectiveness by committee members and also the level of reported injury and illness rates, and (3) to assess the suitability of health and safety committees as a platform for future intervention research involving participatory methods to improve effectiveness of the committees. The study uses several complementary sources of data: (1) interviews with 50 HSC members, (2) a survey of 500 manufacturing HSC companies, (3) administrative records from the CT Workers' Compensation Commission, including inspection checklists and HSC committee minutes for the 500 companies, and (4) workers' compensation first report of injury rates from 1995-2004. Comparisons will be made of HSC characteristics, including (a) committee membership and structure, (b) perceived importance of committee, (c) worker involvement, (d) management commitment and resources, and (e) committee activities to both HSC self-assessed efficacy and injury and illness rates in order to understand the characteristics that lead to more effective committees. Project Narrative Job Health and Safety Committees (HSC) are worker-management committees that are intended to try to reduce work-related injuries and illnesses in the workplace. This study is designed to better understand the characteristics of HSC (such as membership, activities, and communication) that make them more or less effective. This information is expected to lead to interventions to improve the effectiveness of HSC, which in turn should reduce work-related injuries and illnesses.