Feasibility of a Capacity Building Organizational Intervention for Worker Safety and Well-being in the Transportation Industry: Pivoting to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social and Political Unrest in Chile.

J Occup Environ Med

From the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (S.E.P., J.D.); Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (S.E.P.); Sociology Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada (M.-A.L.G.); Center for Demographic Studies (CED), CED-CERCA, Barcelona, Spain (M.-A.L.G.); College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine (G.H.); Subgerencia de Innovación e Investigación, Mutual de Seguridad CChC, Santiago, Chile (M.M.M.); and Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts (J.D.).

Published: July 2024

This study developed, implemented, and evaluated the feasibility of executing an organizational capacity building intervention to improve bus driver safety and well-being in a Chilean transportation company. Method: Through an implementation science lens and using a pre-experimental mixed methods study design, we assessed the feasibility of implementing a participatory organizational intervention designed to build organizational capacity. Result: We identified contextual factors that influenced the intervention mechanisms and intervention implementation and describe how the company adapted the approach for unexpected external factors during the COVID-19 pandemic and social and political unrest experienced in Chile. Conclusions: The intervention enabled the organization to create an agile organizational infrastructure that provided the organization's leadership with new ways to be nimbler and more responsive to workers' safety and well-being needs and was robust in responding to strong external forces that were undermining worker safety and well-being.

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