Special issue from USE2009

USE2009 has made an agreement with two international journals about publishing a special issue with papers from the conference:

'Policy and Practice in Health and Safety'
'Policy and Practice in Health and Saftety' is edited by Professor David Walters and published by IOSH. You can read more about the journal and editorial guidelines to be followed for submission here .

Please note, that the lenght of paper for the USE2009 special issue from Policy and Practice should be max. 8000 words (including abstract, key words, notes, and references).

'International Journal of Workplace Health Management'
IJWHM is published by Emerald and you can read more about the journal and editorial guidelines to be followed for submission here and here .

Please note, that the lenght of paper for the USE2009 special issue from IJWHM should be max. 5000-6000 words (not including abstract of max 250 words and references).

Time table

1 February: Deadline for interested authors to submit their papers – papers are forwarded to the reviewers (double blind review).

1 March: Authors receive review comments and get two month for the revision of the paper (provided that the paper is accepted for further submission).

1 May: Authors submit the revised paper. The revised paper is accepted, forwarded for second review or rejected.

1 June: If the paper was forwarded for second review, authors receive the review comments.
NB: Due to serious illness among the editors the process has been delayed. Final reviews and editors' decisions regarding the papers will be forwarded as soon as possible. The deadline for final papers will be postponed accordingly. The new schedules for the two special issues are as follows:

'Policy and Practice in Health and Safety'

15 august: Authors submit the final paper. The USE2009 editors assess the paper. Accepted papers are sent to the editors of the journals for final accept.

Accepted papers will be published Autumn 2010.

'International Journal of Workplace Health Management'

Publication of the special issue has been postponed until Spring 2011.

The editors will contact the authors during Autumn 2010 regarding the further process (review and final submission)

Editors
Peter Hasle, Senior researcher, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark

Hans Jørgen Limborg, Research director, TeamArbejdsliv ApS, Denmark

Tina Kallehave, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Caroline Klitgaard, Research assistant, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark