Past Projects
RIDE – Trucking
The RIDE Study at Northeastern University and the University of Washington has partnered with Schneider National Trucking Inc., to enroll eligible drivers into a study that is exploring driver health/back pain and vibration in trucks.
All the Right Moves for Subcontractors (ARM for SUBS)
All the Right Moves for Subcontractors aims to improve safety, health and well-being, through the development of a communication infrastructure with supplemental tools where construction workers and company mangers (project, operations and safety) work together to collaboratively identify problems and strategies to improve their conditions of work. The intervention is grounded in the key characteristics of integrated organizational interventions to improve workers’ health safety and well-being detailed in Harvard Center for Work, Health and Well-being’s Implementation Guidelines (McLellan et al, 2016). The intervention involves a cyclical approach through which the research team facilitate a participatory process to identify workers’ health concerns, prioritize these concerns, use an action planning process to identify and operationalize solutions, and develop a company-specific evaluation plan to measure change. We will evaluate this program by measuring safety climate, health climate, pain and injury and health behaviors.
ACES
The goal of ACES (Assessment of Contractor Safety) is to develop a pre-qualification assessment tool that demonstrates improvement in the health and safety of construction workers through effective systems of safety that are based on a set of values shared and disseminated throughout the worksite.
Foundations in Safety Leadership
This project’s overall goal is to help ensure that tens of thousands of frontline construction supervisors nationwide obtain critical leadership training they need to promote a positive safety climate on their worksites and improve safety outcomes.
Building Safety for Everyone
Building Safety for Everyone was a construction worksite-based program that utilized Predictive Solutions to recognize safe physical working conditions and practices from safety assessments ad provide feedback to workers.
PROOF
PRedicting occupational biomechanics in OFicce worker (PROOF) investigated the link between muscle efforts and postures to muscoskeletal symptoms.
Alpha Whole body Biomechanics of Coal Miners
Miners who operate heavy equipment vehicles (HEV) in open pit mines have a high prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Miners are also exposed to whole body vibration, especially shock impulse vibration due to the operation of HEVs including. The broad objective for this research is to characterize WBV exposures in order to develop feasible and effective approaches for reducing exposure to whole body vibration among heavy equipment vehicle operators in mines.
Upper Extremity Biomechanics of Multi-tough Devices – Product Design
The Biomechanics projects examine upper limb kinematics and muscle use while using technology. These results inform designers about how gestures and configurations of technology impact the musculoskeletal system.
