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Sustained, Intensive Engagement to Promote Health and Safety Knowledge Transfer to and Utilization by Workplaces

Institute for Work & Health, dkramer{at}iwh.on.ca

Donald C. Cole

Institute for Work & Health and University of Toronto

The need to establish a positive relationship between the source of the knowledge and the user organization to achieve knowledge utilization is an established principle of knowledge transfer. Yet, the process of establishing such a relationship and its impact on knowledge utilization remains relatively unexplored in the field of workplace health and safety. This article describes such a knowledge transfer intervention with three manufacturing workplaces. Using qualitative methods, a knowledge broker documents and evaluates a knowledge transfer intervention and the utilization of a body of research on workplace health and safety. This article explores the issues of intensity, duration, and the interactive nature of positive relationship building and highlights the implications for knowledge transfer on workplace health and safety.

Key Words: workplace • intervention research • knowledge transfer • knowledge utilization • evaluation • health and safety

Science Communication, Vol. 25, No. 1, 56-82 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1075547003252334


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