Primary and secondary outcomes and time points for measurement
Time points for measurement after interventions | Statistical analyses and reporting | ||||
6 | 12 | 15 | 20 | ||
Primary outcomes | |||||
Self-reported work environment | |||||
Psychosocial and organisational working conditions | ✓ | ✓ | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes | ||
Job demands, emotional demands, job control, social support, role expectations, leadership, bullying, violence, unwanted sexual attention | |||||
Mechanical working conditions | ✓ | ✓ | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes | ||
Squatting/kneeling, standing, upper body forward bending, awkward lifting, heavy lifting, lifting people | |||||
Self-reported health complaints | |||||
Mental health complaints | ✓ | ✓ | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes | ||
Mental distress, exhaustion | |||||
Musculoskeletal complaints | ✓ | ✓ | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes | ||
Neck pain, back pain, headache, pain in the shoulder, upper arm, lower arm, wrist or hand, pain in hips, legs, knees or feet | |||||
Work ability | ✓ | ✓ | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes | ||
Sickness absence* | Risk ratios using Poisson mixed models/count outcomes | ||||
Compliance with OSH legislation | ✓ | Differences in means using t-tests/count outcomes | |||
Secondary outcomes | |||||
Self-reported work environment | ✓ | ✓ | |||
New technology and work-related changes, predictability during the next month, positive challenges at work | Odds ratios using mixed logistic regression/dichotomous outcomes | ||||
Self-reported health complaints | ✓ | ✓ | |||
sleep | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes | ||||
Occupational injuries | ✓ | ✓ | Odds ratios using mixed logistic regression/dichotomous outcomes | ||
Systematic safety and health work | ✓ | ✓ | Odds ratios using mixed logistic regression/dichotomous outcomes | ||
Additional effects of labour inspection on work environment and health | ✓ | Differences in means using linear mixed models/continuous outcomes |
*Sickness absence rates will be based on doctor-certified sickness absence 1 year before and the year following the interventions.