Total Worker Health [2019]: Chapter 09: Total Worker Health Approaches in Small- to Medium-Sized Enterprises

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• Personal Author:
  Newman, Lee S. ; Tenney, Liliana
• Description:
  This chapter focuses on the unique needs and challenges facing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their employees in addressing occupational health, safety, and well-being. The workers bear a greater burden of occupational fatalities, illnesses, and injuries. Unfortunately, SMEs generally do not offer the same level of health protection, health promotion, employee benefits, and wages found in larger enterprises. Most total worker health intervention studies have been conducted in large enterprises and offer little evidence to support the generalization of results to the small business setting. The chapter summarizes the relevant research and provides examples from research and practice experience in designing and testing SME interventions conducted at the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health. The chapter identifies areas for future research to address the substantial gaps in knowledge of what works in SMEs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Small Business Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health Promotion Policy Safety Programs Small Businesses Total Worker Health TWH Work Environment Worker Safety Work Organization
• 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:
  19 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065761
• Citation:
  Total worker health. Hudson HL, Nigam JAS, Sauter SL, Chosewood LC, Schill AL, Howard J, eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2019 Jul; :161-177
• 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:
  Manufacturing ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Total Worker Health [2019]
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:57b1412ec666a5300b6b6b12e3e00d5debbb5568486c5e904fa6194df46c46aeadceefde6b72967c31a2328eea2827f8beec36dfc91cfb2ce7d5550f133f7f40
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182934/cdc_182934_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB ]