O[yes] announces 2022 Safety Media Contest winners
Oregon High School students were invited to create either a 30-90 second video or a graphic design that inspires young workers to think twice about their personal health and safety at work....
Category: Worker well-being
Adapting Total Worker Health® education to all learning platforms
Image credit: Lorri Birkenbuel, Montana Tech Educators today need to continue to be flexible in the ways in which we deliver our content. Our Institute and Oregon Healthy Workforce Center's...
Announcing Oregon Healthy Workforce Center’s annual report
Greetings from the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center! We’re thrilled to share our FY 21 annual report. This marks the final year of our 2016-2021 cycle, one filled with an array of activities...
The future of work and the role of well-being
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) has published a new Medium article, "The Future of Work: The Role of Well-being." Medium is an open platform publishing a variety of trending topics and...
Podcast episode: Designing flexible work to create a just economy for Black and Latinx women
In our latest podcast episode, we highlight another talk from our 2021 Fall Symposium. Dr. Charlice Hurst spoke on an important topic, "Designing Flexible Work to Create a Just Economy for Black and...
Staff Spotlight: Sam Greenspan
In our Staff Spotlight posts, we feature an Institute staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas,...
Year three of our podcast
We are excited to move into the 3rd year of our podcast, What's Work Got To Do With It? Every year we publish 6 to 10 podcast episodes a year where we dig into some of the science behind the...
Podcast episode: Supporting low-wage, essential workers during COVID
In our latest podcast episode, we highlight a 2021 Fall Symposium talk from Dr. Tori Crain. Dr. Crain addressed the topic of supporting low-wage essential workers' nonwork life during the pandemic...
Total Worker Health® practitioner education: Full steam ahead
While there is so much that is difficult for workplaces during the pandemic, it is somewhat amazing how much education we have been able to provide for safety, health and well-being professionals in...
2021 Fall Symposium recap and recordings
Thank you to all those that joined us virtually for our 2021 Fall Symposium on the topic, "Work-Life Challenges and Integration in the Context of COVID." Our 2021 Fall Symposium took place last...