Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH)

CROSH is a research centre at Laurentian University. CROSH was established in 2008 to provide a formalized structure for industry, safe workplace associations, labour groups, government organizations, and researchers to share workplace injury and disease problems and solutions. Our Mission We envision a northern Ontario where workplaces partner to ensure every worker gets home safe and healthy everyday. We will be an agent for innovation and discovery to solve relevant and critical problems facing northern industries so they can eliminate occupational injury and disease from their workplaces. To make this happen we will: - engage with workplace parties in all phases of research; - create a network of international research partners to share and build expertise; - develop a framework to facilitate knowledge utilization and sharing to ensure our findings are accessible to agencies dedicated to workplace health & safety; and - promote new discoveries to government and industry in order to positively influence policies and practices.