The new issue of Pistes (vol. 7, n° 2) covers a a wide range of issues. The papers have been presented during a Conference of the Resarch Network on Health and Safety at Work in Quebec.

Table of contents:
Disciplinary characteristics and exchanges in occupational health: the researchers’ perception and point of view
Monique Lortie, Denys Denis, Claire Lapointe, Francine M. Mayer et Henriette Bilodeau

Workers’ contribution to the development of training programs in safe manual handling: identification of strategies, biomechanical evaluation and implementation
Micheline Gagnon

Controlled exposure to light and darkness realigns the salivary cortisol rhythm in night shift workers
Diane B. Boivin, Francine O. James, Anny Casademont

The Tobacco Act (December 1999) and the paradoxes of its application in plant environments
Julie Dussault

Development of a statistical model for predicting the lifetime of the lumbar rachis, according to cyclic stresses, age and bone density
Houcine Ayari, Marc Thomas et Sylvie Doré

The reduction of chronicity risk factors and the return to work
Michael J.L. Sullivan, Heather Adams, William D. Stanish et André Savard

Issues associated with the development of a "smart" earplug
Jérémie Voix et Frédéric Laville

An intervention aimed at the reduction of work-related mental health problems in residential and extended care centres
Renée Bourbonnais, Nathalie Gauthier, Michel Vézina, Chantal Viens, Pierre J. Durand, Chantal Brisson, Marie Alderson, Pauline Bégin et Jean-Paul Ouellet

The Effects of Employment Status on Occupational Health and Safety: The Case of Homecare Workers and Nurses in Homecare Services in Québec
Esther Cloutier, Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Élise Ledoux, Hélène David, Isabelle Gagnon, François Ouellet et Catherine Teiger

Occupational health and safety cost management: a literature review
Maurice Gosselin

Why the Quebec Workers’ Compensation Board (CSST) is not the first line of recourse for teachers and cleaners with work-related illnesses
Nancy Guberman et Dominique Côté

Diverted collegiality: the organizational roots of psychological harassment in universities
Chantal Leclerc, Cécile Sabourin et Micheline Bonneau

Management practices and age relationships in the workplace
Yolande Pelchat, André Campeau, Julie Bradette et Michel Vézina

Improving occupational health and safety performance: results vs predictors
Mario Roy, Lise Desmarais et Jean Cadieux

• All the papers are available on the website (full text in French, summary in English)