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

Study populations

 * Dock workers in Denmark and other countries