Feasibility of a Capacity Building Organizational Intervention for Worker Safety and Well-Being in the Transportation Industry: Pivoting to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social and Political Unrest in Chile

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• Personal Author:
  Dennerlein J ; Hendersen G ; López Gómez M-A ; Martínez Maldonado M ; Peters SE
• Description:
  This study developed, implemented, and evaluated the feasibility of executing an organizational capacity building intervention to improve bus driver safety and well-being in a Chilean transportation company. Method: Through an implementation science lens and using a pre-experimental mixed methods study design, we assessed the feasibility of implementing a participatory organizational intervention designed to build organizational capacity. Result: We identified contextual factors that influenced the intervention mechanisms and intervention implementation and describe how the company adapted the approach for unexpected external factors during the COVID-19 pandemic and social and political unrest experienced in Chile. Conclusions: The intervention enabled the organization to create an agile organizational infrastructure that provided the organization's leadership with new ways to be nimbler and more responsive to workers' safety and well-being needs and was robust in responding to strong external forces that were undermining worker safety and well-being. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Fatigue Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Transportation
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Organizational Intervention Bus Driver Bus Drivers COVID-19 Healthy Leadership Healthy Work Design Intervention Job Stress Latin America Occupational Stress Organizational Design Participatory Design Scheduling Total Worker Health Transportation Industry TWH Wellbeing Worker Safety Worker Well-being Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maine ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069536
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2024 Jul; 66(7):e272-e284
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan E. Peters, PhD, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
• Email:
  sepeters@hsph.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c4630707c0cccddaf85122c0ce518ccadb7e481cafe8e4edc7f94f9bb01f043fb41cf8d02f9b991df0ed1cb0ae6b16efeed32ded25fb9a471e566050007dc5ad
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207956/cdc_207956_DS1.pdf
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