Total Worker Health® and Organizational Behavior Management: Emerging Opportunities for Improving Worker Well-Being

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• Personal Author:
  Anger, W. Kent ; Cunningham, Thomas R. ; Donovan, Courtney ; Nigam, Jeannie A. S. ; Olson, Ryan ; Rameshbabu, Anjali
• Description:
  We draw artificial boundaries between our lives at work, at home, and in the community. Each person is living an integrated life where all of their environments (resources, physical environment, psychosocial environment, responsibilities/demands) interact to impact their safety, health, and well-being. Total Worker Health® is an approach developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to address such interactions, and to advance science and practice for protecting workers' safety, health, and well-being. The Total Worker Health (TWH) approach represents an expansion of traditional occupational safety and health research and practice, with strong safety protections for workers as its foundation. The current paper provides an introduction to TWH, including: (1) Significance, (2) Historical Background, (3) Hierarchy of Controls, (4) Review of TWH Interventions, and (5) Future Opportunities. The reciprocal and interactive perspective of TWH is consistent with Skinnerian and other approaches to behavioral science, as well as organizational systems analysis approaches. With its behavioral and systems analysis roots, and associated historical emphasis on environmental conditions and interventions, the Organizational Behavior Management community can make great and important contributions in the TWH domain. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Total Worker Health Health Health Promotion Intervention Occupational Safety And Health Protective Measures Total Worker Health TWH Well Being Worker Safety
• ISSN:
  0160-8061
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSI - Division of Science Integration
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  41 pdf pages
• Volume:
  43
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066680
• Citation:
  J Organ Behav Manage 2023 Oct; 43(4):280-319
• Contact Point Address:
  R. Olson, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health Science University, 3222 SW Research Drive, Portland, OR
• Email:
  olsonry@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Healthcare and Social Assistance ; Public Safety
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:261874b62def421e7aa806191c5e6403edfae1b27c6e5bc9fc91792bae65a35389ab8a8f9a41b54c3ca578ac134a476537fc062aae07b3b95c237a52b11a5708
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230759/cdc_230759_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.06 MB ]