Occupational Epidemiology/Dock Workers´ Health and Safety Surveillance and Intervention Program - enter/3. Master of Public Health, Thesis SDU, Esbjerg

Dock Workers´ Health and Safety survey

• Project proposal for a Master of Public Health Thesis
• Title: Dock Workers´ occupational Health and Safety
• Contact: Debbie Andrioti and Olaf Jensen, Center of Maritime Health and Society, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark Dandrioti@health.sdu.dk and ocj@health.sdu.dk

Brief description of the proposal

• A survey determine the workplace mental health and the safety climate, by the use of standard questionnaires and interview
• Person, age, gender, nationality etc and types of harbor, cargo/ship types, areas in the harbour, job-position, working hours, contracts
• Interview with dock workers on the risks and how to prevent the risks
• International literature review on dock workers occupational health and safety internationally

Research questions

1. Workplace mental health risk factors
2. Workplace Safety climate
3. Proposals of how to prevent the workplace risks and improve the working conditions

Project objectives

• To study the workplace safety climate and workplace mental health indicators.
• To assist the workers for better work environment

Methodology

• Standardized questionnaires (with extra questions) and personal interviews
• Comparison among contries by the use of the identical questionnaires in different languages

	English versions	Spanish versions
Safety Climate	Safety climate questionnaire	NOSACQ-50-Seguridad en el trabajo
Psychosocial work environment-short	Questionnaires CoPso	[https://www.dropbox.com/s/sua314peepirbh8/2014%20CopsoQ%20cuestionario_vc.pdf?dl=0

Study populations

• Dock workers in Denmark and other countries