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

Details

• Journal Article:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Personal Author:
  Tenney, Liliana ; Fan, Wenyi ; Dally, Miranda ; Scott, Joshua ; Haan, Michelle ; Rivera, Kaylee ; Newman, Madeline ; Newman, Lee S.
• Description:
  Objective: The aim of this study was 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. Conclusion: 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 that TWH is both effective and sustainable in meeting the needs of employees. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior 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 2019 Aug; 61(8):623-634
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• 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
• Contact Point Address:
  Liliana Tenney, MPH, 13001 E. 17th Place, Mail Stop B119 HSC, Aurora, CO 80045
• Email:
  liliana.tenney@ucdenver.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Services
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health CDC Public Access
• 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 ]