Health Links™ Assessment of Total Worker Health® Practices as Indicators of Organizational Behavior in Small Business

Details

• Journal Article:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Tenney, Liliana ; Fan, Wenyi ; Dally, Miranda ; Scott, Joshua ; Haan, Michelle ; Rivera, Kaylee ; Newman, Madeline ; Newman, Lee S.
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  To conduct a cross-sectional assessment of the adoption of Total Worker Health® (TWH) policies and practices by business size and evaluate extent and alignment of their safety and health.
  
  Methods:
  
  We conducted an analysis of 382 businesses that completed the Health Links™ Assessment. We measured organizational adoption of TWH across six benchmarks: organizational supports, workplace assessments, health policies and programs, safety, engagement, and evaluation.
  
  Results:
  
  Benchmark scores were significantly associated with business size. Larger businesses were more likely to score higher across each benchmark.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Small businesses are implementing TWH in a variety of ways and the level of implementation differs by business size. Practical interventions as well as dissemination and implementation research should take business size into account to ensure TWH is both effective and sustainable in meeting the needs of employees.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Organizational Behavior Safety Small Business Workplace Health
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Occupational Safety; Organizational Behavior; Small Business; Total Worker Health; Workplace Health Total Worker Health; TWH; Behavior; Small Businesses; Work Organization; Intervention Effectiveness; Worker Safety;
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 61(8):623-634
• Pubmed ID:
  31045750
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6748381
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  T42OH009229/ACL/ACL HHS/United States ; U19 OH011227/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; U19OH011227/ACL/ACL HHS/United States
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  30 pdf pages
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056763
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b447d91f8048f6eef701558f571fe219804df2133b7d45b725c17615da435dec827936685e9c9f299e289ee78c9838a2940d1d1656c68cfeb8d7a4f3947fb756
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/86796/cdc_86796_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 467.22 KB ]