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Primary Investigators

Kay Teschke
Professor
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
phone: 604 822-2041

Mieke Koehoorn
Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
phone: 604 822-5756

Catherine Trask
Assistant Professor
Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture (CCHSA)
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK
Phone: 306 966-5544

Additional Investigators

Jack Callaghan – University of Waterloo

Hugh Davies - School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Murray Hodgson - School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Peter Johnson - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

Jim Morrison – Simon Fraser University

Robin van Driel, Masters Student – School of Environmental Health, UBC

Judy Village - School of Population and Public Health, UBC

Last updated on March 29, 2012 @9:06 pm

Final Reports & Brochure
Study Forms
Theses

Brochure summarizing study results

Report, Part A. Back Injuries in Heavy Industries: Defining Back Injury Outcomes for Research Purposes. Koehoorn M, Xu F, Village J, Trask C, Hurrell C, Teschke K. Final Report to WorkSafeBC, June 2008

Report, Part B. Back Injuries in Heavy Industries: Risk Factor Exposure Assessment. Teschke K, Trask C, Village J, Chow Y, Cooper J, Davies H, Demers P, Hodgson M, Hong K, Hurrell C, Johnson P, Knott M, Luong N, Morrison J, Wright G, Xu F, Koehoorn M. Final Report to WorkSafeBC, January 2008

Interview Form

Observation Form (Back-EST)

Robin van Driel. Evaluating methods to use the Virtual Corset (TM) inclinometer for trunk posture measurements. MSc Thesis in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, 2009 (link)

Catherine Trask. Balancing Efficiencies & Tradeoffs: Evaluating EMG Exposure Assessment for Low Back Injury Risk Factors in Heavy Industry. PhD Thesis in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, 2008 (link)

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