Integrated Approaches to Health and Safety in a Dynamic Construction Work Environment (ARM For SUBS)

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Worker Health; Work Injury; Safety Climate; Pain

Treatments: Other: All the Right Moves for Subcontractors

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03781245

IRB13-1948

Details and patient eligibility

About

"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.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All workers employed by the recruited contractors at the eligible worksites

Exclusion criteria

• Companies with less than 5 workers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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144 participants in 2 patient groups

Early

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention is administered for cycle 1 and 2 with researchers and following this the company continues intervention independently.

Treatment:

Other: All the Right Moves for Subcontractors

Lagged

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intervention is not administered for cycle 1; researchers administer intervention in cycle 2 and following this the company continues intervention independently.

Treatment:

Other: All the Right Moves for Subcontractors