Total Worker Health [2019]: Chapter 07: Occupational Safety, Health, and Well-Being Programs in Small Midwest Enterprises

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• Personal Author:
  Campo, Shelly ; Kelly, Kevin M. ; Rohlman, Diane S.
• Description:
  Many researchers now recognize that aspects of the workplace (scheduling, shift work, physically demanding work, chemical exposures) not only increase the risk of injury and illness but also impact health behaviors (smoking, physical activity) and health outcomes (sleep disorders and fatigue, obesity, musculoskeletal disorders; Zhang, Flum, West, & Punnett, 2015). In turn, ill health and chronic conditions can impact performance at work, increasing risk for injury, absenteeism, and reduced productivity (Goetzel et al., 2004). Programs that expand the traditional occupational safety and health focus of protecting workers from work-specific safety and health hazards to include the promotion of health and well-being have been shown to be more effective than programs addressing these separately (Anger et al., 2015; Sorensen et al., 2013). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH's) Total Worker Health(R) approach, defined as policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being, specifically meets this need (NIOSH, n.d.). Understanding employers' safety and health prevention practices is a necessary step to prioritize interventions. This chapter reports on a survey of employers' current practices in the Midwest and compares the results to a single state survey conducted several years before that also examined workplace programs to determine changes in the adoption of programs, policies, and practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health Promotion Intervention Total Worker Health TWH Work Environment Worker Health Workers
• ISBN:
  9781433830259
• Publisher:
  American Psychological Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Name as Subject:
  Total Worker Health
• Genre:
  Book Chapter
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057120
• Citation:
  Total worker health. Hudson HL, Nigam JAS, Sauter SL, Chosewood LC, Schill AL, Howard J, eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2019 Jul; :127-140
• Editor(s):
  Hudson, Heidi L. ; Nigam, Jeannie A.S. ; Sauter, Steven L. ; Chosewood, L. Casey ; Schill, Anita L. ; Howard, John
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060901
• Source Full Name:
  Total Worker Health [2019]
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182933/cdc_182933_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.13 MB ]