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Reducing risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in first responders by increasing their resilience

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The OHS Futures Research Funding Program provided a grant to the researcher to develop and pilot test an online resilience training program for police organization employees. They also aimed to... More ≫

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The OHS Futures Research Funding Program provided a grant to the researcher to develop and pilot test an online resilience training program for police organization employees. They also aimed to Understand the acceptability of the course from anecdotal feedback.

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When good workers ignore the rules

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The OHS Futures Research Funding Program provided a grant to the researcher to determine a quick and economical way for Alberta companies to identify and remedy procedural intentional... More ≫

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The OHS Futures Research Funding Program provided a grant to the researcher to determine a quick and economical way for Alberta companies to identify and remedy procedural intentional non-compliance (PINC); that is when well-trained and safety-motivated workers willfully choose to ignore known workplace safety rules and procedures.

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Risk assessment for work-related musculoskeletal injury using wearable sensors

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The OHS Futures Research Funding Program provided a grant to the researcher to design an objective parameter to detect and quantify fatigue using purely kinematic information rather than... More ≫

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The OHS Futures Research Funding Program provided a grant to the researcher to design an objective parameter to detect and quantify fatigue using purely kinematic information rather than electromyography (EMG)-based parameters, design and develop an experimental procedure to validate the new parameter against the EMG signal and rating of perceived exertion, experiment with various work condition scenarios to investigate the efficiency of the proposed kinematic parameter in muscle fatigue detection, and validate the accuracy of the wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) in collecting the proposed kinematic (movement) parameter against the camera-based motion capture system for a long-term material handling task.

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Safety-centric “time-cost trade-off” theory and methodology for planning industrial construction

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Presents results of a research project to create a cost-effective computing method to enable Time-Cost Trade-off (TCT) optimization analysis on construction projects of practical size and... More ≫

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Presents results of a research project to create a cost-effective computing method to enable Time-Cost Trade-off (TCT) optimization analysis on construction projects of practical size and complexity reflecting those in the real world. The researchers aim was to work toward formalizing guidelines for TCT optimization that would consider safety and time and cost constraints related to the expedition of construction projects. It is postulated that having guidelines and analysis tools such as these may decrease hazardous situations and safety risks that have been associated with expedition of construction project schedules.

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