User:Saltrabook/The research procedure
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- Select the job you want to investigate and a group of workers
- Take contact with 5-10 of them and get the permission to make interviews with them in a group or one by one
- The method used is only the cualtitative, interview method - in a "light version" this is not for publication in a scientific journal
- Start to write the report and continue throughout the whole process - like a short scientific article
- Find statistics about the number of persons in the job
- If there is a union, take contact 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 of the identified 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 ..)