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OREGON HEALTHY WORKFORCE CENTER Total Worker Health® Center of Excellence About Our Center The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is one of six Total Worker Health® Centers of Excellence. Our mission is to conduct Total Worker Health research and develop programs to improve the health, safety, and well-being of workers across industries. Since our start in 2011, we have produced four toolkits that together have effectively improved: ohsu.edu/ohwc OUR TOOLS AND TOOLKITS TO LEARN MORE VISIT Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at OHSU Supervisor communication and performance Safety climate Work safety practices and compliance Sleep, diet and exercise behaviors Team effectiveness Knowledge of safety and health YourWorkpath.com
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OREGON HEALTHYWORKFORCE CENTER
Total Worker Health® Center of Excellence
About Our Center The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is oneof six Total Worker Health® Centers of Excellence.Our mission is to conduct Total Worker Healthresearch and develop programs to improve thehealth, safety, and well-being of workers acrossindustries. Since our start in 2011, we have producedfour toolkits that together have effectively improved:
ohsu.edu/ohwc
OUR TOOLS AND TOOLKITS
T O L E A R N M O R E V I S I T
Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at OHSU
Supervisorcommunication
and performance
Safety climateWork safety
practices andcompliance
Sleep, diet andexercise
behaviors
Teameffectiveness
Knowledge ofsafety and health
YourWorkpath.com
Why Total Worker Health®? Conceptualized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Total Worker Health® isan approach that jointly addresses workplace factors such as hazard reduction and work design withemployee-related issues like illness prevention and health improvement in order to reduce injury,increase safety, and enhance worker well-being. We typically spend much of our waking hours at work. It is inevitable that factors at the workplacecontribute to our health and well-being, both at work and at home. For example, stress at work hasbeen associated with burnout and anxiety, shift work can increase the risk for sleep disorders, andvarious work-related risk factors have been linked to injury, musculoskeletal disorders, depression,unhealthy lifestyles and many chronic diseases. In turn, health concerns are linked with injury,absenteeism, turnover, and productivity.
The United Statesspends nearly$250 billionon occupationaldisease, injury,and death
Integrated Total Worker Health®programs have
Reduced workers compensationclaims and costs
Reported a Return on Investment (ROI) of$2.05 to $4.61 per dollar invested
Building the Business Case
Leigh, J. P. (2011). Economic Burden of Occupational Injury and Illness in the United States. The Milbank Quarterly, 89(4), 728–772. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0009.2011.006482. Anger W. K., Elliot. D., Bodner, T., Olson, R., Rohlman, D.S., Truxillo, D.M., Kuehl, K.S., Hammer, L.B., Montgomery, D. (2015). Effectiveness of Total Worker Health Interventions. Journalof Occupational Health Psychology, 20, 226–247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a00383403. Bertera EL. The effects of workplace health promotion on absenteeism and employment costs in a large industrial population. American Journal of Public Health September 1990: Vol.80, No. 9, pp. 1101-1105. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.80.9.1101
Sources:
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center
The Hierarchy of Controls and Total Worker Health® While traditionally, the Hierarchy of
Controls has been used as to helpdetermine how to implementeffective and feasible control
solutions to protect workers on thejob, the concept has been refined
and updated to better addresshazards recognized within the Total
Worker Health framework to providea conceptual model for prioritizingefforts to advance worker safety,
health and well-being.
Grant: NIOSHU190H010154
