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Dock Workers´ Health and Safety survey

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  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

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

Methodology

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  • 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

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  • Dock workers in Denmark and other countries
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