Improving the health and safety of 911 emergency call centre agents: an evaluability assessment of a knowledge transfer strategy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dagenais, Christian; Plouffe, Laurence; Gagné, Charles; Toulouse, Georges; Breault, Andrée-Anne; Dupont, Didier
• Is Part Of: International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics. Volume 23:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 50
• Page End: 59
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: evaluability assessment -- knowledge transfer -- occupational health and safety -- emergency call centre agents; Human engineering -- Periodicals; Industrial safety -- Periodicals; Human Engineering -- Periodicals; Occupational Health -- Periodicals; Ergonomie -- Périodiques; Sécurité du travail -- Périodiques; Human engineering; Industrial safety; Periodicals; 620.8
• DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2016.1216355
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1080-3548

Abstract

Abstract : A knowledge transfer (KT) strategy was implemented by the IRSST, an occupational health and safety research institute established in Québec (Canada), to improve the prevention of psychological and musculoskeletal problems among 911 emergency call centre agents. An evaluability assessment was conducted in which each aspect of the KT approach was documented systematically to determine whether the strategy had the potential to be evaluated in terms of its impact on the targeted population. A review of the literature on KT in occupational health and safety and on the evaluation of such KT programmes, along with the development of a logic model based on documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, indicated that the KT strategy was likely to have had a positive impact in the 911 emergency call centre sector. Implications for future research are discussed.