WorkSafeBC is pleased to issue this Request for Proposals in partnership with the Workers' Compensation Board of Manitoba, the Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board, the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, and Alberta Employment and Immigration.

WorkSafeBC is dedicated to achieving a vision of workers and workplaces safe and secure from injury, illness and disease. In order to achieve this vision, WorkSafeBC, together with its partners, must encourage and support the development and use of the best scientific evidence on issues that workers, employers and the organization itself face in seeking to prevent injury and illness, to return injured workers to health and to work, and to provide fair compensation.

To this end, WorkSafeBC offers research grants under its program FOCUS ON TOMORROW. Under its category RESEARCH AT WORK, traditional operating and development grants are made available to researchers affiliated with universities and other research institutions. Under its category INNOVATION AT WORK, grants are made available to a broader group of applicants (including workplace parties, unions, employer organizations, and educators) and are intended to support research for the development of new knowledge and/or practical problem-solving at the workplace level.

The Notice of Intent deadline for both categories is January 12, 2009.

Application Deadlines:

INNOVATION AT WORK - February 9, 2009
RESEARCH AT WORK - February 16, 2009

Click the button below to view the full request for proposals.

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For further information please visit our Website.

Sincerely,

Ed McCloskey, Ph.D.
Director
Research Secretariat
Policy and Research Division

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