Maritime Health Research and Education-NET/Students Research Projects 3
Title | Analysis of the Dockworkers workplace safety climate |
Student | .. |
University/ institute | .. |
Supervisors | .. |
Data supplier | Possible: The dockworker's unions |
Ethical considerations | The ethical rules for database research in the university are complied with. Confidentiality in handling personal information is done according to the rules set out by the National Data Protection Agencies. Research department is notified. The dataset is anonymous. |
Data ownership and rights to publish |
The data Supplier (name) is the data owner with the right to publish the results based on the student's Thesis. In agreement, the student has the right to be first or a co-author by compliance with the rules for authorship after agreement |
Brief description of the proposed project | Through time, the mental pressure became greater through industrialization, and the work was characterized by manual, physically hard work. While the physical strain is reduced with various aids, but studies on the safety climate are deficient. If the results show that there is deficiencies the port workers' safety climate there is also something to achieve for a longer and better quality of life for dock workers. |
Research question | How are the prevalences of the indicators for:
1. Workplace Safety climate |
Project objectives | To study the prevalence of the workplace safety climate and workplace mental health indicators. |
Project methodology | 1. Systematic literature review (PRISMA)
2. Epidemiological, analysis of NoSaClQ (STROBE*) Besides the Nordic standard questionnaire, the variables include health, smoking, demographic indicators on person, age, gender, nationality, work areas and job-position, leader/non-leader, and work environment indicators |
Research population? | Dock workers in (city name) and other harbours |
Type of project | Cross-sectional epidemiological analysis of questionnaire data and a systematic literature study |
Type of project are you thinking of ? | Literature review
Questionnaire based analysis and report (epidemiology) Interviews |
What kind of support can you provide to our student? | x Supervision for the study and thesis writing
x Research methodological training x Assistance to complete study with the port workers |
Project start and end | To be defined |
Other comments | PRISMA and STROBE are international guidelines for systematic scientific study reporting |