Going Beyond Accident Prevention - Application of Resilience in Complex, High-Risk Settings

Resilience is an approach to safety as a core capability of high performing organizations. A resilient organization, team or individual brings knowledge, skills and abilities to productively manage day-to-day work to optimise the system’s performance. Unlike other perspectives on safety that focus on accident prevention, resilience emphasizes successful operations under varying conditions and challenges as the basis for safety. The Learning Lab aims to support and improve understanding of the concept of resilience as an innovative approach to the governance and management of safety in complex, high-risk industries and provide practical ideas about the operationalization of resilience that can be implemented in the workplace to foster effective innovation for safe operations.

Day 1 (May 7) of the Learning Lab will focus on governance and targets board members and senior executives who are critical to safety leadership.

Days 2 to 4 (May 8-10) of the Learning Lab is designed to provide an intensive learning experience that targets safety practitioners from a range of industries (and will also be open to board members and senior executives who wish to participate in the intensive 3 day session).

This event brings together a diverse group of leaders from a variety of high-risk industries that share a concern and interest for improving safety in their respective organizations. It will provide an opportunity to engage with international thought leaders and practical experts in system safety. In particular, the cross-industry perspective will provide an excellent opportunity to form linkages, exchange experiences and foster coalitions to enhance understanding of resilience across a range of high-risk industries.

Presented by the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health and The Human Factor Group at WorkSafeBC. The aim of both groups is to foster an understanding of the concept of resilience, its underlying principles, and to foster wider use of this systemic approach to manage the competing priorities of complex, high-risk industries.

Topic: Does maternal exposure to antipsychotics really affect birth outcomes? Using propensity score matching to produce evidence on causal relationships.

Presenter: Dr. Bill Warbuton

Topic: Fear of birth and preferences for elective obstetric interventions among young Canadians

Kathrin Stoll BA, MA, PhD (c)
Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia

Learning objectives:
* To provide participants with
* Information on recent developments in the field
* Multidisciplinary perspectives
* Critical analysis of important topics from a substantive and methodologic perspective (through presentation and discussion of Journal articles, etc)
* A forum for discussing research ideas and research in progress

The National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH) are pleased to announce their 7th Annual Summer Institute. This opportunity to help advance health equity will build on our experience in the six priority areas of the NCCPH: environmental health, Aboriginal health, infectious diseases, methods and tools for knowledge translation, healthy public policy, and determinants of health.

To learn more about the conference click here
To learn more about the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health click here

SPPH Staff Meeting

Strategic Planning Faculty Retreat: Let's create our own reality

We have the opportunity to help shape the future of SPPH as an institution and as a workplace. Please make a special effort to attend and contribute to this function.

Please RSVP to Katherine Came

This is a special tea and cake event for graduating SPPH students and their family.

To welcome the new staff and faculty who have joined SPPH, we are having a BBQ on May 23rd at 1 pm. Join us in front of the SPPH building, on the SPPH Patio and in the Lobby, for some grilled hot dogs (all beef and vegetarian), salads and tasty nibbles.

Please RSVP at: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1b51

This is a special Graduation Luncheon for graduating SOEH students and their families.

Name: Chun-Yip Hon
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Time: 9:00 am
Place: Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road)

Thesis Title: Healthcare Workers and Antineoplastic Drugs: Evaluating the Risks and Identifying Determinants of Exposure

Chun-Yip's thesis supervisor is Dr. Kay Teschke.

WorkSafeBC is proud to host the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health's 2012 conference. A biennial event, CARWH 2012 will focus on innovation in occupational health and safety research, bringing together research experts and research users to expand and advance the dialogue on these topics.

The conference will begin on May 31st with a student day, followed by two days focused on innovative ideas and research in the field of occupational health and safety on June 1 and 2. The conference will include a wide variety keynote presentations, symposia, poster sessions, panel discussions and networking opportunities. Anyone with an interest in participating in the conversation is welcome.

BCEOHRN's (BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network) Spring meeting provides an opportunity for trainees and PI’s in environmental and occupational health research to share their research, exchange ideas and network with researchers, clinicians, policy and decision-makers, health care administrators, representatives from business, industry and government, as well as other trainees.