User:Saltrabook/The research procedure

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  1. Select the job you want to investigate and a group of workers
  2. Take contact with 5-10 of them and get the permission to make interviews with them in a group or one by one
  3. The method used is only the cualtitative, interview method - in a "light version" this is not for publication in a scientific journal
  4. Start to write the report and continue throughout the whole process - like a short scientific article
  5. Find statistics about the number of persons in the job
  6. If there is a union, take contact and discuss a strategy for action research
  7. Take contact to newspaper journalists to make their articles in collaboration
  8. Make a plan for visits to one or more of the same type of workplaces,
  9. Perform the visits and describe some selcted work processes (interviews, photos, videos, measurements of noise etc)
  10. Evidence: Search for articles on health and harzardous risks and occupational diseases to be added to the report
  11. Discuss a prevention plan of the identified risks with the workers, the safety committees, the unions and the employers
  12. Follow the implementation of the prevention plan
  13. Evaluate the effect with prospective observations and interviews
  14. Make recommendations for future prevention activities
  15. Finalise the 1000-2000 words article - systematised like a scientific article but not for a journal (IMRAD)

Dissemination of the research[edit | edit source]

  1. Prepare the Wiki page in English or Spanish with fotos, tables etc. (without author names)
  2. Contact eventually newspapers(/radio/tv - that may be interested to create a section on occupational health in their newspaper (Saturdays ..)