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Current issue: At Work 94 (Fall 2018)

Identifying promising strategies to prevent or reduce misuse and abuse of prescription opioids. Calculating employers’ spending on occupational health and safety in 17 Ontario sectors. Developing a screening tool for workplace psychosocial hazards, with the help of IWH’s expertise.

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At Work is the flagship newsletter of the Institute for Work & Health. Published quarterly and available as a pdf or online, the newsletter includes engaging and lay-friendly articles reporting on the Institute's latest research findings in the areas of work injury, illness and disability prevention. The newsletter also shares stories of how these findings are applied in practice, as well as the impact they are having on improving outcomes for workers, employers and policy-makers.

Past issues

At Work 93 cover At Work 93 (Summer 2018)
At Work 92 cover At Work 92 (Spring 2018)
At Work 91 cover At Work 91 (Winter 2018)
At Work 90 cover At Work 90 (Fall 2017)
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Seeking broad input on a pan-Canadian strategy to improve work choices for people with disabilities

Public consultation is now under way on a draft strategy for building an inclusive workforce—one where people with and without disabilities have the same choices in their jobs and careers. Read about the draft strategy, unveiled last December at the Disability and Work in Canada 2018 conference.
Published: January 13, 2019
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What research can do: Drawing on IWH’s Seven ‘Principles’ in return-to-work policies, practices

The Seven 'Principles' for Successful Return to Work is far and away the most downloaded item on the IWH website. We tracked down a few examples of how it has been used by workplaces and clinical practitioners.
Published: November 8, 2018
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Slight improvements seen in workplace psychosocial conditions over 10 years

How have psychosocial work conditions changed in Canada over a 10-year time frame? Data from Statscan surveys suggest a slight improvement, but the IWH researchers behind the analysis are cautious in their interpretations.
Published: November 8, 2018
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Developing a new screening tool of psychosocial hazards

When the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) set out to create a tool to help workplaces tackle psychosocial hazards, IWH was there to lend its tool development expertise.
Published: November 8, 2018
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Calculating the costs of employers’ work-related injury prevention efforts in Ontario

You often hear OHS professionals and advocates talk about the costs of work-related injuries. But what about the costs of preventing the injuries? An IWH research team recently set out to calculate employer OHS investments in Ontario.
Published: November 7, 2018
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