Total Worker Health® Metrics

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• Personal Author:
  Chang C-C ; Laszcz-Davis C ; Nelson D ; Sahmel J
• Description:
  Although there is some consistency in the types of metrics applied by the tools evaluated in this chapter, it is important for involved parties to identify the organizational components they want to measure. This includes organizational leadership, worker participation, health and safety programming and practices, health impact, psychosocial risk factors, or all of these metrics collectively. OEHS professionals, along with operations personnel, should jointly evaluate the organization's priorities to determine the tool or tools that will best capture the issues of interest, importance, and possible interventions needed. Given the complexity of the workplace and work issues impacting the workforce, multilayered and multidimensional approaches to identifying leading health metrics will be more informative than single topic measures. It appears that no singular survey measure or outcome is currently recommended to assess all TWH policies, programs, and practices within an organization. A combination of surveys can serve to address the TWH structure, process, and outcome-based features, informing the organization's intervention approaches. Finally, a combination of predictive leading and lagging indicators (which these tools represent) will often profile an organization transparently enough that its workings provide opportunities for identifying strengths, challenges, and opportunities to optimize the organization, its people, and business success. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Health Promotion Health Surveys Industrial Hygiene Injury Prevention Psychosocial Factors Total Worker Health TWH Work Organization
• ISBN:
  9781950286188
• Publisher:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  131-137
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068644
• Citation:
  Industrial hygiene performance metrics, 2nd edition. Lawson RS, Booth CA, eds. Falls Church, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), 2023 Jul; :131-137
• Editor(s):
  Lawson RS; Booth CA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Industrial hygiene performance metrics, 2nd edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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