Small Business Total Worker Health: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach to Facilitating Organizational Change

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• Personal Author:
  Brown CE ; Dally MJ ; Newman, Lee S. ; Schwatka, Natalie V. ; Scott J ; Shore E ; Tenney L ; Weitzenkamp D
• Description:
  Nearly half of Americans are employed by small businesses, and future projections suggest that the number of those employed by small businesses will rise. Despite this, there is relatively little small business intervention research on the integration of health protection and health promotion, known as Total Worker Health (TWH). We first discuss the importance of studying small businesses in TWH research and practice. Second, we describe an example of a small business TWH intervention, Health Links(TM) plus TWH owner/senior manager leadership training, that we are evaluating via the Small+Safe+Well (SSWell) study. Key features of the intervention and the SSWell study include attention to multi-level influences on worker health, safety and well-being; organizational change; and dissemination and implementation science strategies via the RE-AIM model. We offer several considerations for future small business TWH research and practice both in terms of the small business context as well as intervention development and evaluation. Our goal is to provide TWH researchers and practitioners with a framework and an example of how to approach small business TWH interventions. Ultimately, through the SSWell study, we aim to provide small businesses with strong evidence to support the use of TWH strategies that are practical, effective and sustainable. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Small Business
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Occupational Health Intervention Dissemination And Implementation Science Health Promotion Health Protection Occupational Health Occupational Health And Safety Occupational Health Programs Occupational Safety Occupational Safety Programs Organizational Climate Small Businesses Total Worker Health TWH Worker Safety

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• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  25-41
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051217
• Citation:
  Occup Health Sci 2018 Mar; 2(1):25-41
• Contact Point Address:
  Natalie V. Schwatka, Center for Health, Work & Environment and Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
• Email:
  natalie.schwatka@ucdenver.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Mining
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Science
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:597105f7da205217063a0f4f60813f48e20f8f87a3446cfdaf117728509ceed6eaa3d6fe07631f6f4b72fe8132b4b75e000fda08ddca1c3d8e9e5cfd823b2b4d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211295/cdc_211295_DS1.pdf
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