Geneviève Baril-Gingras

Laval University | ULAVAL · Department of Industrial Relations

Although several organisations attempt to implement organisational health interventions (OHI), they often fail due to the lack of attention paid to the process and context of such interventions. Managers bear a great responsibility in that they are often key players in implementing the interventions’ activities. However, little is known regarding w...

Employment and working conditions having an impact on health and safety are some of the most important concerns of workers. Amongst the various means by which trade unions contribute to prevention, the contribution of Worker Safety Representatives (WSR) is well-established and the most studied, including their participation in joint occupational he...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover the effect of psychosocial safety climate (PSC – a climate for psychological health) on managerial quality and the mediating processes explaining that association. It is posited that the alignment between what is said (espoused PSC) and what is done (enacted PSC via managerial quality) is important f...

Ce numéro spécial de Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations présente des articles issus de recherches originales consacrées à des changements fondamentaux survenus dans le travail et les formes d’emploi, qui détériorent la santé et la sécurité des travailleuses et des travailleurs et qui creusent les inégalités face à la santé. Ce sont auta...

This special issue of Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations presents articles based on original research on fundamental changes to work and work arrangements that undermine workers’ health and safety, exacerbate health inequalities and pose major challenges to those who want to resist a 'race to the bottom' in working conditions and imagin...

To describe the changes implemented as part of a workplace psychosocial intervention. The intervention was conducted in a public organization employing 1630 white-collar workers. The intervention was defined as all changes implemented to reduce adverse psychosocial work factors. A logbook was held to describe the changes implemented in the interven...

This study aimed to investigate the association between employees' perceptions of their exposure to an organizational-level occupational health intervention and its psychosocial outcomes. Participants were employees of an insurance firm (N = 1084) in Quebec, Canada. The intervention was designed to reduce adverse psychosocial work factors (high psy...

La loi québécoise sur la santé et la sécurité du travail (LSST) a été adoptée en 1979. Or la réglementation concernant ses quatre mécanismes clés (programme de prévention, programme de santé, comité de santé et de sécurité et représentant à la prévention) n’a toujours pas été étendue à tous les secteurs d’activité économique, contrairement à ce qui...

More than thirty years after the adoption of the Quebec Act respecting occupational health and safety (AROHS), the regulations respecting the prevention programme (PP), the health programme specific to the establishment, joint OHS committees (JOHSC) and workers' safety representatives (WSR) have not yet been implemented in all occupational sectors,...

Plus de trente ans apres l’adoption de la loi quebecoise sur la sante et la securite du travail (LSST), la reglementation concernant le programme de prevention (PP), le programme de sante (PSSE), le comite de sante et de securite (CSS) et le representant a la prevention (RP) n’a pas ete etendue a tous les secteurs d’activite, tel que prevu, et les...

MSD represents the primary cause of occupational illness and the occupational health physician would appear to be a determining stakeholder in prevention. The studies of risk factors of MSD are important but the studies of intervention are limited. The objective of our research is double: understand the practices of occupational health physician an...

To compare employees' and managers' perceptions of implemented changes in an organizational-level workplace intervention. Nine departments participated in an intervention aimed at reducing adverse psychosocial work environment factors. On the basis of a prior risk evaluation, department managers were responsible for decisions and implementation of...

It examines the implications of the shift from specification to process based regulation, in which attention has been increasingly directed to the means of managing OHS more systematically at a time in which a major restructuring of work has occurred in response to the globalised economy. These changes provide both the context and material for a wi...

Organizations are facing ever-stiffer competition in the current globalized economy, and employees are consequently being exposed to increasingly adverse psychosocial work factors. Psychosocial work factors, also called psychosocial stressors, refer to all organizational factors and interpersonal relationships in the workplace that may affect worke...

'An impressively broad and sophisticated study of a critical aspect of OHS regulation. This is the best socio-legal analysis available of the contexts, strategies and practices involved in inspection of approaches to managing health and safety in the face of change.' © David Walters, Richard Johnstone, Kaj Frick, Michael Quinlan, Geneviève Baril-Gi...

First-level managers’ work has undergone many changes in recent years. In Québec’s public health network, the number of these managers has decreased significantly. However, they play an important role in the health (physical and mental) and safety of work team members, since they define some of their working conditions and some aspects of the psych...

This article deals with the conditions and processes that lead to changes following occupational health and safety interventions, with training activities being used as an example. Observations and interviews were conducted during four training interventions carried out by advisors from joint OHS sector-based associations. Three aspects of the cont...

With this study, we endeavoured to develop a model to explain both the processes leading to preventive-based changes during occupational health and safety interventions performed by external advisors, and the effect of the workplace context on these interventions and on the implementation of change proposals. The study concerns seven interventions...

Un modele d’analyse a ete construit pour rendre compte de l’influence du contexte de l’etablissement sur l’issue d’interventions de prevention en sante et en securite du travail. Il a ete constitue a partir d’une etude de cas en profondeur de sept interventions realisees par des conseillers externes. L’etude examine l’influence du degre de developp...

Various studies have shown that worker health and safety are related, among other things, to the characteristics of the organization to which workers belong, and the social interactions taking place within the organization. Our study centres on understanding what influence the context has on creating positive change, in terms of occupational health...

The handling of 2,306 boxes being loaded or unloaded from vans onto or from 4-wheeled trolleys by 31 handlers in a warehouse were characterized. Handling was videotaped and characterized through an analysis grid completed by three trained observers. The following execution parameters were observed: nature of the exertion applied by the upper limbs,...

The purpose of this study, carried out on handlers in the distribution centre of a large transport company, was to identify the techniques used for handling objects other than boxes. Thirty-one workers, with experience varying from one month to 17 years, were each filmed during one shift. A grid with 36 variables allowed the successive operations t...

Thèse (M. Sc.)--Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992. Comprend des réf. bibliogr.