METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES FOR INTERVENTION RESEARCH IN OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH AND SAFETY

This article presents a brief summary of the nature and extent of inte rvention research being conducted in the area of occupational safety a nd health, Articles were classified either as engineering, administrat ive, or behavioral, according to the type(s) of interventions that wer e evaluated. Findings suggest that many of rite intervention studies c onducted lacked a theoretical basis, used small samples, and tested in terventions lacking the intensity to cause the desired change. Most st udy designs were either nonexperimental or quasi-experimental. Recomme ndations for conducting future research are presented. (C) 1996 Wiley- Liss, Inc.