ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies and discusses five essential intervention design elements, as well as a series of critical considerations when working to evaluate and sustain worker health, safety, and well-being (WHSWB) interventions. Interventions that effectively address WHSWB issues do not just happen; they result from careful planning and a research-inspired design process. Strong theory and empirical evidence then help people understand what is needed and what is likely to work to address the WHSWB issue at hand. A more realistic sequence of events is: proof of concept pilot study of intervention components; evaluate these components and see how they are received and if/how they work; make some adjustments, add/remove some components, and try again; evaluate this new version and keep the process going. Intervention design can at least initially be approached with a very straightforward stimulus-response model originally associated with early behaviorist researchers in psychology.
