SafetyNet is a Community Alliance for Health Research with major funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). This comprehensive research program studies occupational health and safety of marine and coastal work.

Despite the notoriously dangerous and risky nature of marine and coastal occupations, relatively little research of this kind has been done in these sectors. This is in part because successfully studying workplace health and safety involves coordinating researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and participation of a broad range of community partners.

SafetyNet is proud to have created a community alliance that includes researchers in medicine, nursing, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and marine sciences, and involves partners in the public sector, private sector and in the very coastal communities in which the research is taking place.

Applied Health Research

One of the core mandates of the Community Alliance for Health Research is to conduct research that is relevant to the communities and agencies related to the areas of study. Each project has the objective to try to understand the nature, distribution and causes of particular sets of occupational injury and disease. Furthermore, each project will contribute to the development of appropriate methods for the improvement of occupational health and safety.

The SafetyNet program is designed to offer direct and concrete results: evidence-based, practical recommendations for innovations in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, regulatory regimes, and the training of health professionals, workers, and managers.

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