Paige DeBaylo

Paige DeBaylo is the director of the National Safety Council MSD Solutions Lab. DeBaylo leads the Lab’s efforts to advance accessible, practical and novel research related to emerging issues in the musculoskeletal disorders prevention space, including how workforce characteristics impact MSDs; assessing lesser-known MSD risk factors, like psychosocial and organizational factors; technologies for MSD prevention; and real-world MSD solution pilots featured in case studies.   

She brings deep expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods, program evaluation, systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, and survey development and validation. She has edited, reviewed and published occupational health, workplace stress, developmental psychology, and scale development and validation-related research papers in leading academic journals. She has also presented her work at national conferences. DeBaylo holds a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Auburn University, where she studied workplace stress and work-life balance.