Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH)

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Because we envision a northern Ontario where workplaces join together to ensure that every worker gets home safe and healthy everyday, we will be an active agent for discovery and innovation to solve the most relevant and pressing problems facing northern industries – such as mining, natural resources and health care – so that they can eliminate occupational injury and disease from their workplaces.

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CROSH brings together researchers with expertise in ergonomics, human factors, occupational health nursing, epidemiology, mental health, computer science, risk, fatigue, clinical physiology, labour studies and occupational disease.

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    Community-based first aid: a program report on the intersection of community-based participatory research and first aid education in a remote Canadian Aboriginal community
    (2014-04-15) Ritchie, Stephen; VanderBurgh, Dave; Jamieson, R; Beardy, Jackson; Orkin, Aaron
    Community-based first aid training is the collaborative development of locally relevant emergency response training. The Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative was developed, delivered, and evaluated through two intensive five-day first aid courses. Sachigo Lake First Nation is a remote aboriginal community of 450 people in northern Ontario, Canada with no local paramedical services. These courses were developed in collaboration with the community, with a goal of building community capacity to respond to medical emergencies. Issue. Most first aid training programs rely on standardized curriculum developed for urban & rural contexts with established emergency response systems. Delivering effective community-based first aid training in remote aboriginal communities required specific adaptations to conventional first aid educational content and pedagogy. Lessons Learned. Three key lessons emerged during this program that used collaborative principles to adapt conventional first aid concepts and curriculum. (1) 15 Standard algorithmic approaches may not be relevant nor appropriate. Relationships between course participants and the people they help are relevant and important. Curriculum must be attentive to existing informal and formal emergency response systems. These lessons may be instructive for the development of other programs in similar settings.