Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Health and Safety is taught within the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. The emphasis is on the practical application of best practice models, to health and safety in New Zealand workplaces.

Environmental and Quality systems are also considered within the health and safety context and teaching staff are all actively involved in providing health and safety services to a variety of businesses.

Supporting the teaching and clinical practice in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine are researchers undertaking occupational health related research including:

• Acute care disaster preparedness in New Zealand and Oman; a comparative international analysis.
  Sultan Al-Shaqsi (PhD candidate)
• Solar ultraviolet radiation exposure and workplace sun protection in two major outdoor occupational groups.
  Vanessa Hammond MPH
• Outdoor workers’ perceptions of the risks of excess sun-exposure. Papers(2) “McCool et al (ERROR_paginated) and McCool et al, 2009 
  Judith P. McCool, Anthony I. Reeder, Elizabeth M. Robinson, Keith J. Petrie and Des F. Gorman.
• Are workers or their workplaces the key to occupational sun protection?
  Vanessa Hammond, Anthony I. Reeder, Andrew R. Gray and Melanie L. Bell
• Patterns of real-time occupational ultraviolet radiation exposure among a sample of outdoor workers in New Zealand.
  V Hammond, A.I. Reeder, A Gray
• Occupational Health of Front Line Workers in Christchurch (HRC Partnership Programme)
  Dr David McBride, Dr Kirsten Loveock, Dr Daniel Shepherd and Professor Alex Billington.
• Occupational Health in Agriculture Study ( HRC, DoL and ACC)
  Associate Professor Colin Cryer,  Dr Kirsten Lovelock, Dr David McBride, Dr Steve Milosevljevic, Dr Peter Davidson, Ms Kate Morgaine.

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