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Kathryn Woodcock is Associate Professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University, teaching and researching in the area of safety and ergonomics. She previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses in industrial engineering and ergonomics at Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the University of Waterloo. Outside the academic world, she managed the Performance Benchmarks and Analysis Section of the Best Practices Branch at the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario, and prior to PhD studies, she was a hospital vice-president and active in the Ontario health care sector (1980–1990).
Dr. Woodcock studies occupational safety from a macroergonomic perspective, investigating the measurement of safety and accident prevention interventions. Her areas of research interest are dissemination of health and safety knowledge, health and safety problem-solving/reasoning, and safety measurement and evaluation. She also applies ergonomics to access issues for deaf and hard of hearing people.
She is also an adjunct adjunct scientist of the Institute for Work and Health, adjunct professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the Board of Governors of Centennial College in Toronto. Dr. Woodcock is a registered Professional Engineer, and member of Association of Canadian Ergonomists, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the International Society for Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Research. She has served on the HFAC (ACE) Executive Council and other professional committees and has presented many papers in the field. She was the first deaf president of The Canadian Hearing Society, and has been active on a variety of boards and councils including the Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA), the Human Factors Association of Canada, the Ontario Council of Regents for Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, and the National Captioning Institute.
