ASSP addresses Total Worker Health
I felt fortunate and honored to join the American Society of Safety Professional’s Task Force on Total Worker Health earlier this week. This, only three months after this world’s oldest...
Posts by Dede Montgomery
The psychology of emergency preparedness
Many of us have been sometimes inundated with reminders about emergency preparedness and planning, whether for our workplace or our personal lives. What is it, though, that motivates and actually...
New president and faculty: welcome Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Rao
Yesterday was a big day here at OHSU as we welcomed OHSU's next president, Dr. Danny Jacobs. All of us here at OccHealthSci thank Dr. Robertson for his leadership, and welcome Dr. Jacobs to OHSU....
Welcoming new faculty: Saurabh Thosar
This summer we welcome three new faculty members to OccHealthSci. In case you missed our June newsletter, this post features Dr. Saurabh Thosar, who may already be a familiar face to you. Saurabh...
2018 Summer research intern: making sedentary jobs healthier
This summer, I am a research intern in the Wipfli Lab working on the Active Workplace Study. This study is looking at sedentary behavior patterns among call center workers and how a Total Worker...
Civility and etiquette during our commute
I engaged in a tortoise and hare-like race with a Tri-Met bus this morning, climbing and then coasting Burlingame's Terwilliger stretch. We parted ways as I carefully moved through the green light on...
Here’s to Total Worker Health and research dissemination!
Wow! What a successful Occupational Health Psychology Summer Institute we just completed! Big thanks to all the impactful presenters and motivated participants! Stay tuned for a more detailed blog...
Leslie Hammer honored at Work and Family Researchers Network conference
At the biannual conference of the Work and Family Researchers Network in Washington DC, Dr. Leslie Hammer, faculty at Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, and Associate Director of the...
Welcome 2018 Summer Research Interns!
We welcome our 2018 Institute interns: Claire Boenisch, Oregon State University, Ryan Olson Lab Lev El-Askari, Willamette University, Leslie Hammer Lab Adeline Fecker, University of...
Professionals not engineers and other news from Safety 2018
I know that I join many others who are pleased with the rebranding of ASSE to ASSP: professionals not engineers. I imagine there are still job descriptions out there defining some of us as "safety...