Implementation of Occupational Sun Safety at a 2-Year Follow-Up in a Randomized Trial: Comparison of Sun Safe Workplaces Policy Intervention to Attention Control

Purpose:Implementation of employer sun safety actions was assessed in a 2-year follow-up to an occupational sun protection policy intervention.Design:Two-year follow-up assessment in a randomized pretest–posttest controlled design.Setting:Local government organizations with workers in public safety, public works, and parks and recreation.Participants:Sixty-three local government organizations (participation = 64%) and 330 frontline supervisors and 1454 workers.Intervention:Sun Safe Workplaces (SSW) intervention promoting occupational sun safety policy and education.Measures:Observations of SSW messages and sun safety items and surveys on organizations’ communication and actions on sun safety.Analysis:Comparison between SSW and control groups was conducted using regression models and adjusted for clustering where appropriate, with α criterion set at P = .05 (2-tailed).Results:At intervention worksites, more SSW messages (P < .001) and sun safety items (P = .025) were observed; more frontline supervisors re...