Knowledge Transfer at the RRSSTQ
The aim of this article is to look back at the scientific activities and reflection of the strategic knowledge-transfer group (RS-TC) in order to identify development orientations on this topic that are related to occupational health and safety (OHS). To produce this review, we did a literature review using two main sources: 1) symposium- and round table-type activities successively organized in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 and the various presentations and publications that originated from them, and 2) the literature reviews carried out on the transfer of OHS knowledge. We will first present a brief portrait of the OHS transfer activities conducted by the Occupational Health and Safety Research Network’s RS-TC. The text will then provide various avenues for reflection developed from the activities carried out since the creation of this group within the Network. For example, the obstacle of limiting the meaning of the term knowledge and being limited by it, the choice of a representative title for the question of transfer in the Network, the need for using an individual/organization duality, the importance and complexity of the role of the intermediaries, the many relay tools, the problem of implementation. Implicitly, the position of the Network’s strategic knowledge-transfer group of the within the nebula of knowledge transfer is gradually being clarified. The text ends on a yet unexplored avenue of reflection by the knowledge-transfer researcher community within this group—the decision-makers to whom little effort has been devoted—and on the follow-up to be given to the work performed to date: developing an analytical framework suitable for documenting the knowledge and know-how developed in the Network.