2020 Specific Priorities – Impacts of COVID-19 – Request for Proposals
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with your unit
Memorial Deadline: Tuesday 27th, October 2020
External Deadline: Saturday 31st, October 2020
Description
The impacts of COVID-19 to BC workers, employers and the workers’ compensation system are broad and diverse. COVID-19 has changed the way work is done. Including where and how workers are expected to perform their job and how they interact with the workplace.
New ways of working present new risks and challenges, while also providing new opportunities. Safe and durable return to work and recovery of injured workers requires new supports and changes to care delivery and return to work planning, while prevention approaches must adapt to new guidelines, workplaces and technologies.
WorkSafeBC is interested in research projects to address both direct and indirect impacts arising from the COVID-19 pandemic unique to occupational health and safety, injured or ill worker recovery, and safe and sustainable return to work or stay-at-work.
WorkSafeBC recently announced their Specific Priorities Research Competition focused on the “Impacts of COVID-19”.
Specific research topics include:
- *Preventing exposure
- *Addressing the needs of vulnerable workers
- *Working from home
- *Medical, rehabilitative and return to work interventions
- *Post-viral fatigue
More details are available on the WorkSafeBC 2020 Specific Priorities – Impacts of COVID-19 – Request for Proposals webpage and in the attached document.
Downloads
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