ABSTRACT
Broadly speaking, there have been two trends in recent injury-prevention research in the occupational arena: one based on the utilization of the increasing range and power of facilities available for data storage and processing, the other based on the realization of the sometimes highly specific nature, to workplace, equipment or task, of occupational-injury problems. The former has acted as a stimulus to what might be called ‘analytic’ models of the injury phenomenon and their statistical testing, the latter to models for specific interventions in the workplace, usually on the basis of some form of collaboration between different sets of stakeholders (parties with any kind of material interest). This chapter, although aspects of the status of intervention research per se will not be examined (e.g. see Goldenhar and Sculte, 1994; Westlander, 1993), is largely concerned with the latter kind of model.
