Increasing Construction Safety
On January 31, 2023, Rachel Madjlesi, Fatality Investigator, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) and Amy Spring, Outreach Manager, represented the Institute and the OR-FACE...
Category: Safety
Oregon Total Worker Health Alliance podcast episode
In 2017, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon OSHA and SAIF Corporation signed the first state-wide Alliance to expand the knowledge and application of Total Worker Health®...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Highlighting efforts at home and from our partners
Many issues that significantly impact our society often take a while to reach a tipping point. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) is one such issue. In light of a greater acknowledgement in recent...
OHWC’s FY22 report is out!
Happy Thanksgiving Week to our readers! We at the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) are excited to announce our FY22 annual report. In this report, we highlight OHWC research, outreach,...
Fishing Forward podcast episode
In our latest podcast episode, we invite the Fishing Forward podcast team to share important research that can help improve the safety and health for commercial fishermen and their families. The...
Total Worker Health® practitioner education
With continued interest in learning more about the Total Worker Health® Approach, particularly among occupational safety, health and well-being professionals and practitioners, we want to be...
Our 2022 Summer Institute was a Success!
OHWC’s Occupational Health Psychology Summer Institute was a success! Our day-long online event, Total Worker Health® approaches in industry and academia: Key elements and implementation, welcomed...
Safety Conference: Seguridad, salud, y sus derechos en el trabajo
Oregonians and those who live near our borders are fortunate to have access to many high quality conferences providing a plethora of technical sessions addressing occupational health and safety. Here...
2022 Safe+Sound West Coast Challenge
Looking for an incentive to strengthen your organization's safety program? Now you have an opportunity to do just that while also joining other Oregon businesses in a friendly West Coast Challenge as...
Building capacity in Total Worker Health® education
I'm not sure if we had any idea what we were building when we brainstormed the opportunity within our Oregon Total Worker Health® Alliance to develop curriculum addressing the Total Worker Health...