Occupational Health & Safety

Some of the OH&S research performed by the Centre includes the following:

Rechnitzer, G. & Larsson, T. J. (1992) Forklift trucks and severe injuries: priorities for prevention, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report No. 30
Finch, C. F., Rechnitzer, G., Hodgson, R., Brumen, I. & Caple, D. (1996) Manual handling risk assessment in manufacturing industries - a focus on women. (An evaluation of the manual handling risk assessment checksheets.), Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report No. 97
Day, L. & McGrath, A. (1999) Unintentional machinery injury on farms in Victoria, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report No. 148
Haworth, N., Tingvall, C. & Kowadlo, N. (2000) Review of best practice road safety initiatives in the corporate and/or business environment, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report No. 166
Sherrard, J., Lenné, M., Cassell, E., Stokes, M. & Ozanne-Smith, J. (2001) Strategic Direction and Advice for Increasing Safe Participation in Physical Activity in the Australian Defence Force, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report for the Defence Health Service, Full text .pdf file [780KB]
Haworth, N., Symmons, M. & Mulvihill, C. (2002) Safety of small workgroups on roadways, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report No. 195
Symmons, M. & Haworth, N. (2005) Safety attitudes and behaviours in work-related driving – Stage 1: Analyses of crash data, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Report No. 232

Strategic occupational injury prevention
McWilliams, G., Rechnitzer, G., Deveson, N., Fox, B., Clayton, A., Larsson, T. & Cruickshank, L. (2001) Strategic Occupational Injury Prevention: Reducing serious injury risk in the construction industry, Victorian WorkCover Authority (VWA), Melbourne, Policy Research Report No. 9, 2001. Copies from VWA Ph (03) 9641 1288 .pdf [34MB]
Larsson, T., Horberry, T., Johnston, I., Lambert, J., McWilliams, G. and Brennan, T. (2003). Forklift Safety Project: Inclusive Report of Research Undertaken 2000-2003. Copies from VWA.
Larsson, T. J. & Rechnitzer, G. (2001) Safety by design - eliminating manual handling injuries in road transport, WorkSafe Victoria, Victorian WorkCover Authority, 2001, 34p Second edition, . pdf [827KB]
Lambert, J. (2003) Forklift stability and other technical safety issues .pdf [543KB], WorkSafe Victoria, Victorian WorkCover Authority
Larsson, T. J., Horberry, T., Brennan, T., Lambert, J. & Johnston, I. (2003) A Guidebook of Industrial Traffic Management & Forklift Safety .pdf [3.9MB], WorkSafe Victoria, Victorian WorkCover Authority

Day, L., Cassell, E., Li, L. & McGrath, A. (1999) Preventing farm injuries - overcoming the barriers, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), RIRDC Pub No 99/126 - UMO-15a
(Available on this site in pdf format [420KB and RIRDC site in Word format)
Sherrard, J. & Day. L., Guidelines for evaluation of safety programs for the agricultural industry (.pdf 320KB), June 2001 RIRDC Pub No 01/054
Day, L. & Stathakis, V. (2004) Evaluation of farm injury prevention programs, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), Report No. 03/139. Available at RIRDC site

Edition 58, Overview of unintentional hospital-treated work injury, Victoria 1999-2002 [.pdf 930KB]
Edition 24, September 1995 - 'Product related injuries: tractors, escalators' [.pdf 690KB]
Edition 18, March 1994 - 'Work related injuries'; 'Dishwasher machine detergents - update'; 'VISS data information requests' [.pdf 460KB]
Edition 17, December 1993 - 'Work related injuries'; 'Victorian work-related fatalities 1989/90' [.pdf 470KB]

Rechnitzer, G. "The role of design in occupational health and safety - a discussion paper", 2001 (.pdf format [35KB])
Horberry, T., Johnston, I., Larsson, T. J., Corben, B. & Lambert, J. (2004) 'An integrated approach to forklift safety', Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Psychology, 5-9 September, Nottingham, UK [www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/IAAPdiv13/ICTTP2004papers2/Performance/Horberry.pdf]
Horberry, T., Larsson, T., Johnston, I. & Lambert, J. (2004) 'Forklift safety, traffic engineering and Intelligent Transport Systems: a case study', Applied Ergonomics, 35 (6), pp575-581
Symmons, M. & Haworth, N. (2004) 'The contributions of speeding and fatigue to work-related road crashes', Proceedings 2004 Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 14-16 November, Perth, Western Australia, Vol 2, 11p
Fritschi, L., Day, L., Shirangi, A., Robertson, I., Lucas, M. & Vizard, A. (2006) 'Injury in Australian veterinarians', Occupational Medicine
Langford, J. (2005) 'Fleet safety - road safety's next silver bullet?' In J. Langford and B. Fildes [Eds.], Australian Road Safety Handbook: Volume 3, AP-R275/05, pp.24-30, Austroads