Total Worker Health® and Small Business Employee Perceptions of Health Climate, Safety Climate, and Well-Being During COVID-19

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• Personal Author:
  Brown CE ; Dally M ; Dexter L ; Newman, Lee S. ; Schwatka, Natalie V. ; Shore E ; Tenney L
• Description:
  The COVID-19 pandemic created workplace challenges for employee safety and health, especially in small enterprises. We used linear mixed-effects regression to examine changes in health climate, safety climate, and worker well-being, prior to the pandemic and at two timepoints during it. We also examined whether employees at organizations that had received a TWH leadership development intervention prior to COVID-19 would better maintain pre-pandemic perceptions of climates and well-being. The final study cohort consisted of 261 employees from 31 organizations. No differences were observed in mean outcome scores between the leadership intervention groups at any of the survey timepoints. We combined intervention groups to examine the difference across timepoints. Perceptions of health and safety climates remained stable across all timepoints. However, employee well-being scores declined between the pre-pandemic period and subsequent COVID-19 timepoints. These findings suggest that while small organizations continued to be viewed as supporting employees' health and safety over the course of the pandemic, well-being scores declined, indicating that other factors contributed to decreased well-being. The findings from this study have implications for small business leaders as they navigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health, safety, and well-being on their organizations and employees. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Occupational Health Safety Small Business Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Total Worker Health COVID-19 Health Climate Intervention Leadership Safety Climate Small Businesses Total Worker Health TWH Well-being Work Environment

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• ISSN:
  1660-4601
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  18
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063627
• Citation:
  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021 Sep; 18(18):9702
• Contact Point Address:
  Carol E. Brown, Center for Health, Work & Environment, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 13001 E. 17th Pl., 3rd Floor, Mail Stop B119, Aurora, CO 80045
• Email:
  carol.brown@cuanschutz.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:61e181e89232b6576731d75885ae5ab61951bb6bdd055c8e363a2365234677c8b844136cfeed3dbdf32f548cb74ef51b27c9468ad4f7fab58b88e8eed915e8b1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222199/cdc_222199_DS1.pdf
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