The development of policy in HSE needs to be informed by the best available contemporary scientific evidence.
HSE formed WHEC to provide independent expert advice on:
- new and emerging workplace health issues
- new and emerging evidence relating to existing workplace health issues
- the quality and relevance of the evidence base on workplace health issues
For more information visit our WHEC webpage.
The prevention of disease and ill health caused by adverse factors at work will often require interventions to reduce the level of exposure to harm.
Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions is essential to enable confidence that they have had the desired effect, to understand any benefits gained and whether they have caused any unintended harm.
Interventions and their evaluation are more straightforward where a single agent (e.g. asbestos) is responsible for one or more clearly defined outcomes (e.g. mesothelioma or lung cancer), but are more complex in circumstances where ill health is the outcome of multiple possible environmental factors in and outside work.
This paper outlines intervention principles to address such complexity and the research that underpins it.
Read the full evidence review paper:
Evaluating interventions in work-related ill health and disease (PDF)
Join us at a lunchtime seminar to hear two of the authors discuss the nature of evaluation of interventions.
Register for the free seminar
Friday 16 September 2022, 12.30 - 13.30pm
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