La Isla Network CEO Jason Glaser will speak at the 32nd symposium of the Dutch Association for Occupational Hygiene (NVvA). His session is titled “Impact Beyond the Impact Factor,” and will take place on April 10 at 9:35 am local time, at the Woudschoten Hotel & Conferentiecentrum in Zeist.
Glaser’s session will cover La Isla Network’s approach in protecting workers from heat stress, which combines research and intervention. The abstract can be read below.
Publish or perish and other demands in the academy mean that publications, and ideally those in high impact journals can become the end game for researchers and the metric upon which they are judged by peers and policy makers. This can be problematic, and even negligent, in settings where serious risks are identified to the safety and health of workers and currently there is a paucity of intervention studies and efforts with fewer still evaluated. La Isla Network has upended that model with a worker and industry focused approach aimed at making viable and effective interventions that are evaluated through metrics that evaluate prevention efforts, economic resilience for workers, their communities, countries and employers, efficiency and protection through changes in public and private policies and actual practices. This formed the basis for our PREP (Prevention Resilience Efficiency and Protection) approach now active in 10 countries in the sugar, construction and gold mining sectors. Publications are a means to our end of workers protected from needless injury and illness.
La Isla Network protects workers in a changing climate. We generate and implement data-driven worker protection and management assessment protocols to improve the resiliency of workforces and businesses to heat stress. For more information please contact info@laislanetwork.org.
