Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Advance Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being

Details

• Personal Author:
  Edwards, Nicole T. ; Felknor, Sarah A. ; Howard J ; Streit, Jessica M. K.
• Description:
  Attending to the ever-expanding list of factors impacting work, the workplace, and the workforce will require innovative methods and approaches for occupational safety and health (OSH) research and practice. This paper explores strategic foresight as a tool that can enhance OSH capacity to anticipate, and even shape, the future as it pertains to work. Equal parts science and art, strategic foresight includes the development and analysis of plausible alternative futures as inputs to strategic plans and actions. Here, we review several published foresight approaches and examples of work-related futures scenarios. We also present a working foresight framework tailored for OSH and offer recommendations for next steps to incorporate strategic foresight into research and practice in order to advance worker safety, health, and well-being. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Occupational Safety And Health Forecast Future Of Work Job Design Methods And Approaches Occupational Hazards Occupational Safety And Health Scenario Strategic Foresight Total Worker Health TWH Wellbeing Work-life Balance Work-related Future Worker Well-being Workforce Development

  More +
• ISSN:
  1660-4601
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Georgia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063305
• Citation:
  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021 Aug; 18(16):8477
• Contact Point Address:
  Jessica M. K. Streit, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
• Email:
  JStreit@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e83beff918ae69821f65b358b5c5c3a03e6451631de2d85158e53e374c3b5ce132381e3e08840575380bcfa8f6a89c2153dbbd5689d2962b78b4fc92178f826f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226391/cdc_226391_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.15 MB ]