Model gpa objective X working Compendium

2009-2012 Work Plan Number	GPA2.14b Formerly AA3:P2
GPA Objective	Objective 2: To protect and promote health at the workplace
CC or NGO Name	Clinica del Lavoro “Luigi Devoto”, Milan
Project title	Threat to life and physical integrity at the workplace: consequences on mental health and prevention.
Keywords	workplace violence; trauma; prevention; mental health at work; health promotion.
Project leader Email address	Giuseppe Paolo Fichera [e-mail]
Partners (of the CC Network)	University of Nottingham
Other partners	To be identified
Funding	ISPESL/ICP Consortium for the WHO Collaborating Centre University of Milan
Objective of the project	- To identify relations between workplace trauma (accidents and violence) and its effects on workers’ mental health. - To implement prevention and health promotion strategies at the workplaces.
Project outcome(s) and deadline(s) for completion of the project	- Practical toolkits for health promotion and protection from psychological distress following workplace violence and accidents (2008). - Guidelines to protect workers’ mental health and well­being (2008).
Target group and/or beneficiaries	Employers, health professionals, decision makers, managers, human resources directors, legal community, unions and workers
Summary of the project	The worker, whatever his occupation and wherever the occupation is performed, is always at risk for traumatic events of various type. Severe accidents are frequent and, especially if unexpected, can cause severe psychological distress. Attention should be also paid to physical violence in the workplace (e.g. robbery related assaults) both for its frequency and its pathogenic potential. The expected outcomes are practical toolkits for health promotion and protection from psychological distress following workplace violence and accidents and guidelines to protect workers’ mental health and well-being. The aims of the project are to identify relations between workplace trauma (accidents and violence) and its effects on workers’ mental health, and to test and implement new secondary prevention strategies to reduce psychological distress following workplace trauma.
Dissemination	WHO documents; worker and enterprise meetings; scientific seminars
Impact (global or regional)	Global
Progress on Project	Recent Project outcomes Practical toolkits for health promotion and protection from psychological distress following workplace violence and accidents Guidelines to protect workers’ mental health and wellbeing ‘In-progress’ Activities Recruitment of a sample of workers victims of workplace trauma from different work environments to assess predictors of psychological distress Testing a new approach and methodology of secondary prevention based on “post-trauma interviews” to reduce post-traumatic symptoms
List of major outcomes already achieved by this project	Training programmes for workers in order to prevent workplace violence were provided Psychological distress after robbery in the workplace was assessed among bank employees Early psychological support program for bank employees victims of robbery was tested in order to reduce post-traumatic symptoms.
List of additional major outcomes expected from this project by 2012	To assess the efficacy of early psychological support program, and to extend the intervention among different workers victims of different workplace trauma.

2009-2012 Work Plan Number	GPA2.15j Formerly AA3:P1
GPA Objective	Objective 2: To protect and promote health at the workplace
CC or NGO Name	Clinica del Lavoro “Luigi Devoto”, Milan
Project title	Bullying at work: practical tools for prevention
Keywords	Psychosocial issues at work, bullying at work, mobbing, mental health at work
Project leader Email address	Silvia Punzi [e-mail]
Partners (of the CC Network)	University of Nottingham
Other partners	To be identified
Funding	ISPESL/ICP Consortium for WHO Collaborating Center University of Milan
Objective of the project	• To identify the most frequent negative actions occurring in bullying at work, also in relation with victims and enterprise features. • To detect health consequences on victims, also in relation with frequency, type of negative actions and victims characteristics. • To identify specific groups of workers and enterprises particularly at risk for bullying at work
Project outcome(s) and deadline(s) for completion of the project	• Specific toolkits for the prevention of workplace bullying (by 2008) • Guidelines for bullying at work (by 2009) • Training packages for prevention and intervention for health professionals (by 2010)
Target group and/or beneficiaries	Employers, health professionals, decision makers, managers, human resources directors, legal community, unions and workers
Summary of the project	Bullying at work has been recognized as a serious psychosocial risk. It can have consequences on health and quality of life of the victims but also on enterprise and society. Prevention is the most effective strategy to reduce this occupational risk. The objectives of this project are to identify the groups of workers and enterprises more at risk. The expected outcome is the development of practical toolkits for the prevention of bullying at work and intervention addressed to all players involved. The aims of the project are to identify the most frequent negative actions occurring in bullying at work, to detect health consequences on victims and to identify specific groups of workers and enterprises particularly at risk for bullying at work. These information will be essential to develop strategies and toolkit for prevention. Subjects were selected among patients examined at the Department of Occupational Health (“Clinica del Lavoro Luigi Devoto” in Milan) for stress-related disorders from 1997 to 2003 (N=2455): - examination of clinical records was conducted to select subjects reporting a bullying situation - patients reporting a bullying situation were described for gender, age and diagnosis - a representative sample, for gender and age, was selected within patients reporting a bullying situation
Dissemination	WHO documents; worker and enterprise meetings; scientific seminars
Impact (global or regional)	Global
Progress on Project	Recent project outcomes: - Description of the population of patients reporting a mobbing situation for age, gender and diagnosis (N=1919) - Selection of the representative sample (226 subjects) Expected outcomes: Description of the most frequent negative actions and antecedents of bullying Description of health outcomes Identification of groups of workers and enterprises particularly at risk Specific toolkits for the prevention of workplace bullying Guidelines for bullying at work Training packages for prevention and intervention for health professionals ‘In-progress’ Activities Analyses of clinical records of 226 subjects Choice of the variables to analyse Creation of a database
List of major outcomes already achieved by this project	- Description of the most frequent negative actions and antecedents of bullying, health outcomes and personality profiles of the victims -Training packages for prevention and intervention for health professionals, employers, employees
List of additional major outcomes expected from this project by 2012	- Examination of the role of organizational structure in favouring workplace bullying - Guidelines for bullying at work - Specific toolkits for the prevention of workplace bullying

2009-2012 Work Plan Number	GPA2.11x NEW PROJECT
GPA Objective and Action	Objective 2: To protect and promote health at the workplace
Responsible CC or NGO Name	Institute of Research in Occupational Health. University of Guadalajara, Mexico
PROJECT Title	Psychosocial risk of health professionals: Identify psychosocial risk of health professionals in order to generate illness prevention and health occupational programs
Project leader (contact name and email address)	- Chairman of Directive staff of Instituto Internacional de Investigación Social, Ambiental y de Salud Ocupacional (IIISASO) Institute international of Social research, Environmental and Occupational Health, - Cahirman of Instituto de Investigación en Salud Ocupacional (IISO). Institute of Research in Occupational Health. University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Tel y fax: [phone], Manuel Pando Moreno email: [e-mail]
Network partners (CC name, country, email)	- Norito Kawakami, Department of Mental Health, School of Public Health University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Japan [e-mail]- Sergio Milano, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana Venezuela, e-mail: [e-mail] - Ma. Angels Carrión, Asociación de Expertos en Psicosociología Aplicada (AEPA) España, e-mail: [e-mail] - Walter Varillas, Sociedad de Salud y Trabajo, Lima, Perú; e-mail: [e-mail]. - Carolina Reynaldos, Universidad Católica Del Maule, Talca, Chile , e-mail: [e-mail] - Jorge Román, Instituto Nacional de Salud en el Trabajo, La Habana, Cuba, e-mail: [e-mail]. - David Olivares, Centro de Estudios Transdisciplinarios y de RIPSOL, Bolivia y Ecuador, e-mail: [e-mail] - Liliana Parra Osorio, Universidad Libre Seccional Cali, Colombia, e-mail: [e-mail] - Idier Torres, Universidad de Antoquia, Colombia, email [e-mail] - Pablo Garaño, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina, e-mail: [e-mail] - Georgina Espinal, Instuto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, e-mail: [e-mail] - Engels Borjas, Sociedad de Medicina del Trabajo, Honduras, e-mail: [e-mail] - Virginia Alicia Leon Cordoba, Panamá, e- mail: [e-mail] - Carlos Martín Alvarado, Facultad Médica, Centro Médico de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, e mail: [e-mail]
WHO Regions involved in this CONTRIBUTING project (contact name and email)	Japan, Venezuela, Spain, Chile, Cuba, Peru , Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Republic Dominican, Honduras, Panama and Puerto Rico
Country ministries involved in this CONTRIBUTING project (contact name and email)
External partners for this CONTRIBUTING project (contact name, organization and email)	Red Iberoamericana de Riesgos Psicosociales Laborales (RIPSOL). Network Iberoamerican of Occupational Risk Psychosocial. University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Summary of the project (max 100 words)	Objective: Identify psychosocial risk of health professionals in order to generate illness prevention and health occupational programs. Strategies: Create a line research for the study of work psychosocial risk. Generate illness prevention and health occupational programs. Academic education, counselor and management for the generation of healthy occupational spaces.
Target group and/or beneficiaries	Workers in a vulnerable situation
Events-opportunities for furthering the project	An annual meeting for the Occupational Research Conference at Guadalajara, Mexico. - A meeting with the Network Iberoamerican of Occupational Risk Psychosocial (RIPSOL) in Argentina and Ecuador (2011).
Expected results of this project by 2012 (outcomes)	Research report Publications Toolkit for Health Risk Psychosocial prevention.
Indicators of achievement (impact)	Improvement of health professionals psycho epidemiology profiles
Major Milestones (list up to three dates and milestones)	2010 - Study beginning with different kind of health workers. 2011- Study conclusion. December 2011 - Toolkit for Health Risk Psychosocial prevention.
Public health impact	Health improvement of health professionals in a vulnerable situation. Illness prevention caused by psychosocial risks in occupational spaces.
Funding source(s)	Red Iberoamericana de Riesgos Psicosociales Laborales - RIPSOL Network Iberoamerican of Occupational Risk Psychosocial University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Dissemination	Publications with the network members, assistance to national and international scientific meetings, toolkits advertisement.

Priority 2.1e:
Priority 2.1: Develop practical toolkits for the assessment and management of work-related hazards for Musculoskeletal Injuries
Outputs:

Tools, inventory, framework document, mapping of use and types of tools, evaluation, definition of common criteria of toolkits, network of active users

Support:

CC: Wendy Macdonald, La Trobe University, Australia; Stavroula Leka and Aditya Jain, University of Nottingham, UK

WHO/HQ: Evelyn Kortum

FACILITATING PROJECT (administrative)	GPA 2.1e
Facilitating Project Title	Toolkits and other resources to improve management of work-related musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) and other OSH risks
GPA Objective	Objective 2: to protect and promote health at the workplace.
GPA Action	11. …the assessment and management of health risks at the workplace should be improved by: defining essential interventions for prevention and control of mechanical, physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial risks in the working environment. Such measures include also integrated management of chemicals at the workplace, elimination of second-hand tobacco smoke from all indoor workplaces, improved occupational safety, and health-impact assessment of new technologies, work processes and products at the design stage. 15. … work on creating practical tools for assessment and management of occupational risks, recommending minimum requirements for health protection at the workplace, providing guidance on development of healthy workplaces, and on promoting health at the workplace. …
Priority Area	2.1e: Develop practical toolkits for the assessment and management of OH risks (focus: ergonomics)
Purposes of facilitating project	Four of the six projects included here relate to the development of toolkits to reduce the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs); this Facilitating Project will be particularly useful in coordinating these closely related activities. Projects are grouped into: (1) MSDs risk management; and (2) Other.
GPA Manager	Stavroula Leka; Aditya Jain
CC Initiative Leaders and contact information	Wendy Macdonald: [e-mail]
WHO responsible person	Evelyn Kortum
Collaborating centre partners with separate contributing projects	GPA 2.11h Hazard surveillance to manage musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk. Centre for Research & Teaching in Occupational Ergonomics, Health & Safety, La Trobe University, Australia. Wendy Macdonald: [e-mail] GPA 2.11k Toolkits for managing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders (MSDs). International Ergonomics Association. Wendy Macdonald: [e-mail]; Enrico Occhipinti: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; David Caple: [e-mail] GPA 2.11n Prevention of WMSDs: observational tools for the assessment and management of occupational physical risks for the musculoskeletal system, focusing on difficult working sectors. CC-OMS Clinica del Lavoro L. Devoto, University of Milan. Enrico Occhipinti: [e-mail]; [e-mail] GPA 2.15r Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders. National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH), South Africa. Ms Busisiwe Nyantumbu, [e-mail]; Ms Nthabiseng Monareng, [e-mail]
WHO Regional offices actively involved in this project (name and email)
Summary of the project (max100 words)	Most of these projects focus on the development of toolkits to assist in managing the risk of work-related musculoskeletal injuries and disorders – particularly in environments where both the risk and the need for OSH support is greatest. The other two projects focus on development of toolkits addressing a wide variety of OSH risks.
Actual and anticipated deliverables by 2012 from contributing projects	GPA 2.11h • Report reviewing evidence-based conceptual frameworks to support MSD risk management, and current risk assessment / control procedures • a physical and psychosocial hazard surveillance and MSD risk assessment procedure trialled and validated in four Australian workplaces representing two high-risk industry sectors (manufacturing, warehousing) • a half-day seminar for staff of the Sri Ramachandra University, Dept of Environmental Health Engineering in Chennai, India • application of parts of the psychosocial hazard surveillance procedure as part of the industry-based PhD research of a student at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India • various presentations to national and international conferences, including one at the 2009 Beijing Congress of the International Ergonomics Association • a physical and psychosocial hazard surveillance and MSD risk assessment procedure for use in controlling MSD risk in Malaysia’s agriculture sector (developed and validated in either tea plantations or palm oil plantations) – including related guidance documentation intended for subsequent use by OHS professionals in Malaysia • one or more published journal articles reporting the procedure and results validating it GPA 2.11k • A report presenting: (a) a conceptual model of hazards affecting the risk of work-related musculoskeletal injuries and disorders (MSDs); and (b) general requirements for effective MSD risk management • One or more ‘toolkits’ for use in managing MSD risk, designed for initial implementation (with further development as needed) and evaluation within one or more high risk industry sectors, including that of an industrially developing country (such as Thailand). GPA 2.11n • Updates and improvements in tools like NIOSH Lifting Index and OCRA index with reference to multitask analysis. • Procedures for application in some difficult sectors (ie. agriculture, building) Updates and improvements reported in a ISO TR (under development as ISO CD 12259): Application document for ISO 11228 series. • Presentations to international conferences • Reports to ISO CD • Training courses in developing countries GPA 2.15r • presentations as part of the Continued Education Unit program at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS). • a toolkit to be used in education and training of office and laboratory workers • Train the trainer courses in application of the toolkit for H&S reps Information materials (posters, brochures, etc)
Critical gaps to be filled by 2012	None
Examples of deliverables desired by 2012	Tools and related resources to be used in constituting one or more toolkits for the management of all types of hazard affecting the risk of work-related musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.
Barriers to success that must be addressed	Nothing specific to this priority.