User:Saltrabook/The action research process


 * 1) Select the job you want to investigate and a group of workers
 * 2) Take contact to the union to get them involved in the research and help from them
 * 3) Take contact with 5-10 of the workers and get the permission to make interviews with them in a group or one by one
 * 4) Search the litterature on health and risk factors in the specific job and write a short review of the results
 * 5) Define the precise objetives with the themes you want to investigate
 * 6) Describe the method you want to use, the cualtitative, interview method - in a "light version" not for publication in a scientific journal
 * 7) Develop the interview scheme based on the most relevant issues in the litterature review
 * 8) Perform the interviews in the group or/and in the group with the interview scheme
 * 9) Add the results from the interview to the report and continue to edit the report throughout the whole process - like a short scientific article
 * 10) Prepare a preliminary report with power point of youer research results
 * 11) Invite the union, the workers, present your results and discuss a strategy for action research
 * 12) Take contact to newspaper journalists to make their articles in collaboration
 * 13) Make a plan for visits to one or more of the same type of workplaces,
 * 14) Perform the visits and describe some selcted work processes (interviews, photos, videos, measurements of noise etc)
 * 15) Evidence: Search for articles on health and harzardous risks and occupational diseases to be added to the report
 * 16) Discuss a prevention plan based on the oidentified health risks with the workers, the safety committees, the unions and the employers
 * 17) Follow the implementation of the prevention plan
 * 18) Evaluate the effect with prospective observations and interviews
 * 19) Make recommendations for future prevention activities
 * 20) Finalise the 1000-2000 words article - systematised like a scientific article but not for a journal (IMRAD)

Dissemination of the research

 * 1) Prepare the Wiki page in English or Spanish with fotos, tables etc. (without author names)
 * 2) Contact eventually newspapers(/radio/tv  - that may be interested to create a section on occupational health in their newspaper (Saturdays ..)