Using Total Worker Health® Implementation Guidelines to Design an Organizational Intervention for Low-Wage Food Service Workers: The Workplace Organizational Health Study

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• Personal Author:
  Burke L ; Karapanos M ; Nagler EM ; Nielsen K ; Peters SE ; Sorensen, Glorian ; Stelson EA ; Wallace LM
• Description:
  Total Worker Health(R) (TWH) interventions that utilize integrated approaches to advance worker safety, health, and well-being can be challenging to design and implement in practice. This may be especially true for the food service industry, characterized by high levels of injury and turnover. This paper illustrates how we used TWH Implementation Guidelines to develop and implement an organizational intervention to improve pain, injury, and well-being among low-wage food service workers. We used the Guidelines to develop the intervention in two main ways: first, we used the six key characteristics of an integrated approach (leadership commitment; participation; positive working conditions; collaborative strategies; adherence; data-driven change) to create the foundation of the intervention; second, we used the four stages to guide integrated intervention planning. For each stage (engaging collaborators; planning; implementing; evaluating for improvement), the Guidelines provided a flexible and iterative process to plan the intervention to improve safety and ergonomics, work intensity, and job enrichment. This paper provides a real-world example of how the Guidelines can be used to develop a complex TWH intervention for food service workers that is responsive to organizational context and addresses targeted working conditions. Application of the Guidelines is likely transferable to other industries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Food Handling Food Industry Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Food Service Workers Food Services Guidelines Injuries Intervention Intervention Development Occupational Safety And Health Pain And Injury Total Worker Health TWH Wellbeing Work Environment Workers Worker Safety Working Conditions

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• ISSN:
  1660-4601
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063473
• Citation:
  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021 Sep; 18(17):9383
• Contact Point Address:
  Eve M. Nagler, Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215
• Email:
  eve_nagler@dfci.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160801
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• End Date:
  20200731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226534/cdc_226534_DS1.pdf
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