Description
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH OF RESIDENTIAL CARE WORKERS AND HEALTHCARE ASSISTANTS: COLLECTION AND REVIEW OF EXISTING INFORMATION
The research aims to improve knowledge about the most frequent occupational health and safety risk factors among workers in the residential care and healthcare assistants sector and to identify effective interventions and good practices to prevent or mitigate them. It also aims to collect relevant public policy and regulatory initiatives. It is envisaged that the work will be carried out in 3 steps:
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1. Scoping, preliminary literature review and methodological design.
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2. Systematic review of scientific and institutional literature, analysis of European surveys, and interviews with key actors in the sector.
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3. Identification and analysis of good practices, elaboration of case studies and formulation of conclusions and policy recommendations.
The study combines documentary review, statistical data analysis and qualitative fieldwork. Criteria of relevance, impact and transferability will be applied to select good practices.
