Health & Safety Communication for Workers

I was honored to be part of the workshop “Reimagining Health & Safety Communication for Multilingual Workers in Qatar” created and run by Denielle Emans as part of her ongoing PhD research.  This workshop began with a Design Sprint, aimed at understanding how communication designers utilize design to respond to the need for inclusive occupational health and safety media in Doha’s linguistically and culturally diverse construction sector.

In the next stages, we all worked together to come up with some quick prototypes and expand on them in a group format. We then worked together to create digital prototypes of our chosen idea (as an individual or in teams). These digital prototypes will be shared with HSE stakeholders in Doha as part of a Recommendations Packet for communicating health and safety information to multilingual workers in Qatar.

Goals of the workshop included:

• Support construction workers from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
• Discuss ways to overcome barriers to communication
• Explore how graphic design can assist in better communicating health and safety information to the diverse workforce.⠀⠀