OHWC gets renewed for 5 more years!
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is celebrating! Led by Co-Directors Leslie Hammer, PhD and Ryan Olson, PhD, and founded in 2011 by Kent Anger, PhD, our center has been successfully...
Category: Total Worker Health (TWH)
September is Suicide Prevention Month
As the pandemic continues to challenge our health and well-being, it is even more important that we spend time this month addressing suicide prevention. Each September we formally recognize the...
Best of COVID Conversations
Many of you joined our COVID Conversations live, or watched the recordings later. Between February and June of this year, we created ten conversations between industrial hygienists, safety and health...
Join us to discuss work-life challenges, integration, COVID and beyond
Our Fall 2021 Symposium addressing Work-Life Challenges and Integration in the Context of COVID is now open for registration. This full day virtual event via WebEx is scheduled for Friday, November...
Latest OHWC Medium.com article
Medium.com is a crowd-sourced online publishing platform featuring a variety of trending topics and news in the media, research and more. The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) has published a...
Dr. David Hurtado presents on supportive supervision for ASSP
The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Hispanic Safety Professionals Common Interest Group is sponsoring a free webinar addressing how supervisors can improve mental health in the...
COVID Conversations: What have we learned?
Last month we completed our tenth episode of our COVID Conversations, an informal virtual discussion series with safety and health professionals and occupational health nurses about strategies in the...
Implementing Total Worker Health
The Oregon Total Worker Health Alliance (comprised of our Institute, Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, SAIF and Oregon OSHA) have been busy providing virtual Total Worker Health® practitioner...
Bedrooms on 18 wheels: improving sleeping conditions for truck driving teams
Today's blog was submitted By Pete Johnson, Ph.D., MS, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington. Dr. Johnson is a member of an Oregon Healthy Workforce Center research team. The featured photo is...
Happy 50th to NIOSH! We’re celebrating on our podcast.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) turns 50 this year. NIOSH was created in 1970 as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, with a mission to ensure...