The goal of LOARC is to improve working conditions and health for workers through fostering research collaboration across unions, occupational health and safety professionals and university researchers.
Union health and safety activists, health and safety professionals and university-based researchers have come together with a common concern that research agendas in occupational health and safety are too removed from the experience of workers and their abilities to alter the conditions in which they work.
The objectives of the coalition are to:
- Provide unique opportunities to collaboration between workers, their unions, occupational health and safety professionals and academic researchers
- Effect changes at work that will promote worker health, safety and wellbeing.
- Use our skills more effectively and develop relationships
- Improve effectiveness of prevention practices by engaging workers through their unions in priorities, decisions and implementation.
