Expanding the Focus of Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from a Series of Linked Scientific Meetings

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• Personal Author:
  Bhojani FA ; Chosewood, L. Casey ; Delclos GL ; Felknor, Sarah A. ; McDaniel M ; Newman, Lee S. ; Pana-Cryan, Rene ; Schulte, Paul A. ; Streit, Jessica M. K. ; Swanson, Naomi G.
• Description:
  There is widespread recognition that the world of work is changing, and agreement is growing that the occupational safety and health (OSH) field must change to contribute to the protection of workers now and in the future. Discourse on the evolution of OSH has been active for many decades, but formalized support of an expanded focus for OSH has greatly increased over the past 20 years. Development of approaches such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s Total Worker Health® concept and the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Healthy Workplace Framework are concrete examples of how OSH can incorporate a new focus with a wider view. In 2019, NIOSH initiated a multi-year effort to explore an expanded focus for OSH. This paper is a report on the outputs of a three-year cooperative agreement between NIOSH and The University of Texas School of Public Health, which led to subject matter expert workshops in 2020 and an international conference of global interest groups in 2021. This article traces the background of these meetings and identifies and assesses the lessons learned. It also reviews ten thematic topics that emerged from the meetings: worker health inequalities; training new OSH professionals; future OSH research and practice; tools to measure well-being of workers; psychosocial hazards and adverse mental health effects; skilling, upskilling and improving job quality; socioeconomic influences; climate change; COVID-19 pandemic influences; and strategic foresight. Cross-cutting these themes is the need for systems and transdisciplinary thinking and operationalization of the concept of well-being to prepare the OSH field for the work of the future. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Healthcare Disparities Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Expanding Occupational Safety And Health Paradigm Climate COVID-19 Future Of Work Health Disparities Inequality Mental Health Occupational Safety And Health Pandemic Psychosocial Psychosocial Factors Research Methods Socioeconomic Strategic Foresight Total Worker Health Training And Education Transdisciplinary TWH Well-being Work-life Balance Workforce Development

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• ISSN:
  1660-4601
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; District of Columbia ; Georgia ; Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director ; DSI - Division of Science Integration
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066511
• Citation:
  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022 Nov; 19(22):15381
• 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:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20190801
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• End Date:
  20210731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:34a828c0dc612ab234afe1c5658dd3099445abff554ba9c78e2f7fec3fb0ee2049e644d6edcbdd1ff1da5adddb7538cb9f934d8357aa79c6cee9de80327bc402
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