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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....

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Thanking our Veterans

We wanted to send a big thank you to our military Veterans and those within our Institute that have served. We appreciate their service to this country and also their hard work in occupational health...

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OHWC’s new Medium page

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is now on Medium.com. Medium is an online publishing platform featuring a variety of trending topics and news in the media and more. OHWC's first article...

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Two weeks left! Register for the 2020 Summer Institute!

Join our 2020 Online Summer Institute: Building a Culture of Health, Safety, and Well-Being! Featuring an excellent line-up of speakers from academia and industry, our event will include expert...

Let’s build a culture of health, safety and well-being

Come Join Oregon Healthy Workforce Center at the 2020 Summer Institute in Occupational Health Psychology! Building a Culture of Health, Safety, and Well-Being  Are you an organizational leader...

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Our research themes

Our mission is to improve the lives of workers through biomedical and occupational research. At the institute, we stand at the intersection of the workplace and well-being. We do so through basic...

Sharing messages: Health impacts safety

Several years ago we began to create safety meeting guides demonstrating how health truly does impact safety. We had learned through our Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE)...

SOHP features Active Workplace Study

The Active Workplace study aims to reduce exposure to sedentary activity in the workplace and impact Total Worker Health. This Oregon Healthy Workforce study is featured in the Society for...

New Be Super toolkit user guide

Construction workers in the United States are 3 to 5 times more likely to be injured or killed on the job compared to workers in other industries. The Be Super toolkit is an evidence-based program...