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

WorkSafeBC is dedicated to achieving a vision of workers and workplaces safe and secure from injury, illness and disease. 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). These grants are intended to support research for the development of new knowledge and/or practical problem-solving at the workplace level. Principal Investigators or Principal Applicants must be Canadian residents.

*** PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN DEADLINES FROM LAST YEAR ***

Notice of intent deadlines:
RESEARCH AT WORK - December 18, 2009
INNOVATION AT WORK - January 11, 2010

Application deadlines:
RESEARCH AT WORK - January 25, 2010
INNOVATION AT WORK - February 15, 2010

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For further information on our research program, please visit our Website.

Sincerely,

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