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    Promoting sun safety in the workplace - what works?

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    Authors
    Stoneham, Melissa
    Sendall, M.
    Crane, P.
    Janda, M.
    Kimlin, M.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Stoneham, M. and Sendall, M. and Crane, P. and Janda, M. and Kimlin, M. 2015. Promoting sun safety in the workplace - what works? Journal of Health, Safety and Environment. 31 (2): pp. 141-153.
    Source Title
    Journal of Health, Safety and Environment
    School
    Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6403
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Australia has one of the highest skin cancer incidence and mortality rates in the world. Outdoor workers are a high risk group. Australian workplaces are undergoing large scale safety-related changes, yet the mandate to provide specific sun safe practices remains absent. With much of the previous research aiming to improve sun safety in the workplace being quantitative in nature, relatively little is known about why certain sun safe strategies will or will not be successful in workplaces. Methods: This qualitative article explores the enablers and barriers identified during an 18 month mixed-methods project conducted in Queensland, Australia which aimed to improve workplace sun safe interventions. Results: A variety of key enablers and barriers to implementing sun safe interventions in the workplace were identified, including presence of an engaged workplace champion, ownership and innovation by the workers. Conclusions: These findings were part of a broader integration of interlinked qualitative and quantitative methods to yield a more complete picture of the determinants of the issue, implementation process and likelihood of changes at the workplace. Implications: The paper provides guidance for public and occupational health practitioners on the selection of the most promising strategies when assisting workplaces to become sun safe.

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