Using Total Worker Health (R) to Advance Worker Health and Safety

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; ACA; action learning; adolescent; barriers; behavior change; blood pressure; breastfeeding; burnout; cardiovascular disease; cognitive demands; community-university partnership; company reintegration management; construction industry; cross-sectional survey; dirty work; dissemination; employee characteristics; employee well-being; employment duration; ergonomics; farmworker; Germany; governance; happy-productive worker; health; health and safety; health behaviors; health promoting leadership; health promotion; health protection; health risk behaviors; Hispanic; home care workers; hypertension; impairment cost; industry; injury prevention; integration; Job Demands-Control-Social Support (JD-R) model; job satisfaction; job stress; Korean workplaces; leadership; likeability; logic model; management consulting; manufacturing; Millennials; mixed-methods study; moral leadership; MTurk; musculoskeletal; newly-hired workers; nursing; occupational; occupational health; occupational health and safety; occupational health surveillance; occupational injury; occupational safety and health; occupational wellbeing; organizational intervention; organizational readiness; participatory methods; participatory workplace program; Perceived Occupational Health (POH); performance; planning; policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change; precarious work; process evaluation; process fidelity; productivity; professional accountants; program impact; program implementation; psychometric properties; qualitative study; quality of life; return to work; safety; safety leadership; safety management; safety programs; social capital; stress management; survey; sustainability; taint normalization; technical assistance; total worker health; Total Worker Health; Total Worker Health®; training; trust; turnover; well-being; wellbeing; wellbeing misalignment; wellness; work; work culture; work environment; work organization; work policy; work stress; work-to-family conflict; worker well-being; workforce demographics; working conditions; workplace; workplace accommodations; workplace bullying; workplace health; workplace health management; workplace health promotion; workplace safety; young workers
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 It is now recognized that workplace aspects (scheduling, shift work, physically demanding work, chemical exposure) not only increase the risk of injury and illness, but also impact health behaviors (smoking, physical activity) and health outcomes (sleep disorders and fatigue, obesity, musculoskeletal disorders). In turn, ill health and chronic conditions can affect performance at work, increasing risk for injury, absenteeism, and reduced productivity. In the past few decades, programs that expand the traditional focus of occupational safety and health to consider nontraditional work-related sources of health and well-being have been shown to be more effective than programs that separately address these issues. This Total Worker Health approach has been recognized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a method for protecting the safety and health of workers, while also advancing the overall well-being of these workers by addressing work conditions. This compendium presents work from an international collection of scholars exploring the relationship between workplace factors and worker safety, health, and well-being. It provides guidance for improving the organization and design of work environments, innovative strategies for promoting worker well-being, and novel methods for exposing underlying occupational causes of chronic disease.