Safety, health, and well-being of municipal utility and construction workers

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• Personal Author:
  Bodner T ; Bradford B ; Hammer L ; Kraner M ; Truxillo D
• Description:
  Objective: To provide a baseline description of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports along with safety, injury, health, and well-being indicators in a sample of utility and construction workers for a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded Total Worker Health(TM) intervention study. Methods: Survey responses and health assessments were collected from a total of 349 employees in two municipal utility departments. Results: Participants demonstrated poor weight control and body mass index and provided reports of frequent poor health habits, injury, and pain. Although safety climate was good, less desirable levels of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports were observed. These stressors and supports were found to relate with many of the health, injury, and pain indicators. Conclusions: These results demonstrate the need for workplace interventions to promote and protect construction worker health and the importance of the psychosocial work environment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Body Weight Construction Industry Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Behavior-patterns Body-weight Construction-workers Health-protection Health-surveys Injuries Job-stress Occupational-health Psychological-factors Psychological-stress Public-utilities Sociological-factors Stress Total-Worker-Health Work-environment Work-organization Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044627
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2014 Jul; 56(7):771-778
• Contact Point Address:
  Todd Bodner, PhD, Department of Psychology, PO Box 751-PSY, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207
• Email:
  tbodner@pdx.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2dd1e1a58a15b33253c22fd00cbdced1e990280b6c8ab4b3d39efa7805f680395ed7821bd4b5a18867058dbc4896756a0c1b94b37800345a542206c8a73fa6d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200293/cdc_200293_DS1.pdf
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