User:Saltrabook/The action research process
Appearance
- Select the job you want to investigate and a group of workers
- Take contact to the union to get them involved in the research and help from them
- Take contact with 5-10 of the workers and get the permission to make interviews with them in a group or one by one
- Search the litterature on health and risk factors in the specific job and write a short review of the results
- Define the precise objetives with the themes you want to investigate
- Describe the method you want to use , the cualtitative, interview method - in a "light version" not for publication in a scientific journal
- Develop the interview scheme based on the most relevant issues in the litterature review
- Perform the interviews in the group or/and in the group with the interview scheme
- Add the results from the interview to the report and continue to edit the report throughout the whole process - like a short scientific article
- Prepare a preliminary report with power point of youer research results
- Invite the union, the workers, present your results and discuss a strategy for action research
- Take contact to newspaper journalists to make their articles in collaboration
- Make a plan for visits to one or more of the same type of workplaces,
- Perform the visits and describe some selcted work processes (interviews, photos, videos, measurements of noise etc)
- Evidence: Search for articles on health and harzardous risks and occupational diseases to be added to the report
- Discuss a prevention plan based on the oidentified health risks with the workers, the safety committees, the unions and the employers
- Follow the implementation of the prevention plan
- Evaluate the effect with prospective observations and interviews
- Make recommendations for future prevention activities
- Finalise the 1000-2000 words article - systematised like a scientific article but not for a journal (IMRAD)
Dissemination of the research
[edit | edit source]- Prepare the Wiki page in English or Spanish with fotos, tables etc. (without author names)
- Contact eventually newspapers(/radio/tv - that may be interested to create a section on occupational health in their newspaper (Saturdays ..)