Supporting employee sleep results in greater workplace safety
Researchers test the efficacy of a Total Worker Health® intervention designed to support employee sleep on workplace safety outcomes. New research finds that a Total Worker Health®...
Category: Worker well-being
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center’s FY23 report is out!
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is excited to announce our FY23 annual report. We invite you to read about our accomplishments and activities related to our worker safety, health, and...
NIOSH launches Impact Wellbeing campaign for health worker mental health
Today, NIOSH launched Impact WellbeingTM, a national campaign to address the mental health crisis within the healthcare industry. Health workers are increasingly reporting workplace harassment,...
Sleep and Shift Work: Implications for Worker Health and Safety
Let's face it; if you've worked a job, you know what it's like to feel tired at work. Simple tasks require more effort. Motivation and focus wain. Productivity declines. Time seems to stretch on like...
Can workplace check-ins reduce emotional exhaustion among employees in primary care clinics?
The emotional stress, fatigue, and levels of burnout experienced by healthcare workers, both before and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been well documented. As a result, many healthcare...
Development and Validation of a Respectful Workplace Climate Scale
A partnership between Dr. Huang's Safety Climate Lab and state agencies supports the development of a new tool to measure respectful climates in construction workplaces. In 2007, the Oregon...
US Surgeon General releases Advisory on social connection
This week, the United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, released a national strategy on social connection. Click here to learn more. Coming in the wake of the mental health crisis and the...
Understanding Resilience and Micro-aggressions with Dr. Danielle King
In early December, the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and Portland State University hosted their annual Fall Symposium, Supporting a Diverse Workforce in the Face of Ongoing...
¡El Kit de Herramientas de Active Workplace ahora está disponible en español!
¡El Kit de Herramientas de Active Workplace ahora está disponible en español! El Kit de Herramientas de Active Workplace es un programa basado en evidencias que aborda la importancia de disminuir...
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®...