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Work Wellness Institute Membership!

Advance your Career & Improve your Workplace

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  • 350+ Lectures on Demand
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Course Description

This presentation focuses on:

  • New immigrant workers’ understanding of occupational health and safety (OH&S)
  • OH&S training and understanding of rights
  • Challenges they experience in terms of maintaining safety at work.


Learning Outcomes

  • Interventions to promote awareness about OH&S among highly educated new immigrant workers
  • Policies and workplace practices for improving OH&S and wellness at the workplace for new immigrant workers



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PhD

Janki Shankar

Janki Shankar is professor at the faculty of social work at the University of Calgary. Before joining academia, she worked for several years as a mental health therapist and rehabilitation consultant in Sydney Australia. She has a PhD from University of Sydney and has specialized in the vocational rehabilitation of people with disabilities. Her current research focuses on work safety and health of workers from linguisitc and racialized backgrounds and those experiencing mental health issues.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety

    • Pre-Survey

    • Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety

    • Highly Educated Immigrant Workers’ Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety

    • Evaluation Survey