Occupational Health and Safety and Essential Skills
The purpose of this project is to design a field test of an innovative program of occupational health and safety training that embeds individually customized transferable skills enhancement for lower skilled workers. The goal is to enhance the effectiveness of such training in improving OHS outcomes such as worker knowledge, worker and organizational actions that reduce injury risk, and reduced illness and injury rates.
Project Details
Published: March 2013
Capability: Program Evaluation/ Performance Measurement
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Workplace Training
Population: Low-skilled Workers
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