OHWC SHIP and SAIF Leadership Series partnership
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is excited to announce a new collaboration with Total Worker Health® Affiliate and longtime partners, SAIF Corporation. SAIF is a not-for-profit...
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Effectiveness of resource sharing: Oregon COVID-19 Construction Task Force survey results
Background The Oregon Construction and Trades Industry was considered as “essential work” when Oregon Governor Brown issued the Executive Order 20-12 Stay Home, Save Lives on March 23, 2020, one...
Young Workers during the pandemic
The Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition (O[yes]) recently posted a blog on Young Workers and COVID-19. As a way of addressing unique concerns and risks presented to young workers related to...
A tribute to Dr. Shelley Jones
The occupational health and nursing community mourns the loss of an important champion earlier this year: Shelly Jones, PhD, BSN, COHN-S, FAAOHN. Dr. Jones was Professor Emeritus at OHSU School of...
Watch this week’s COVID Convo
We thank Kim Henry of SAIF and our stakeholders and partners who tuned in this week for our second COVID Conversation. Based on the comments we have received so far, we plan to continue this series...
Happy 50th to NIOSH
This year is the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH) 50th anniversary. Since April 28, 1971, NIOSH has funded research, education and resources in occupational safety and...
A successful first
We were pleased so many of you attended our first COVID-19 Conversation held earlier this week via WebEx. Although we did experience a few technical mishaps associated with this first pilot, we are...
10 years at OHWC and YourWorkpath updates
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is celebrating 10 years of Total Worker Health® research, education and outreach efforts to help improve safety, health and well-being in the workplace....
Crafting a Total Worker Health Management System Standard
Over the past six months I have been involved in the drafting of an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) voluntary standard for a Total Worker...
2020 Fall Symposium recordings now available
Thank you for attending our Fall 2020 Symposium on the topic, "Worker Health: Work as a Social Determinant of Health". The symposium recordings are now available on OccHealthSci's Symposia...