DEDICATED TO PAYING IT FORWARD . . . 

KATHRYN WOODCOCK, PhD, PEng

School of Occupational and Public Health

Ryerson University, Toronto Canada

STEVEN L. FISCHER, MSc, CK

WOODCOCK, K. AND FISCHER, S.L. (2008). OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR SIGH LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS. (WORKPLACE SAFETY AND INSURANCE BOARD RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL GRANT #0523) TORONTO ON: RYERSON UNIVERSITY.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Occupational Health and Safety Guide for Sign Language Interpreters was prepared with the financial assistance of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario. The Association of Visual Language Interpreters, and in particular the task force for interpreter health and safety initiated and provided substantial input on the project. Kerry Grandfield, Penny Schincariol, and Angi Tippet advised on the preparation of the material. Numerous other interpreters have provided valued insights, not the least of these being the 314 members of AVLIC who responded to the survey conducted in connection with this project.

The images of interpreting postures and exercises are to the credit of the patience, good humour, and generosity of Miguel Aguayo in the photo studio and post-production, as well as to "models" Penny Schincariol, Angi Tippet and Kelly Ferguson. The creation of the companion materials in ASL using the Sign-Link Studio resource was assisted by Ryerson University PhD student Ellen Hibbard, MS, and her colleagues in the Centre for Learning Technologies.

The expert review of Dr. Richard Wells of the Centre for Research Expertise in Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD) at the University of Waterloo, and Dr. Matthew Marshall of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at Rochester Institute for Technology is also much valued in assuring the technical merits of this Guide. Any errors that remain are ours.