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: Worker well-being
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...
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...
Protecting all workers from adverse heat effects
Oregon was among other western states to experience record-breaking temperatures late last month. Two climate scientists called the northwest heatwave the "most extreme in world weather records." ...
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...
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...
SERVe intervention featured in Military Reach
Dr. Jacqueline Brady's work on the Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe) project (Principal Investigator: Leslie Hammer, PhD) was highlighted in Auburn University’s March 2021 edition...
Spring Symposium: Adapting to Climate Change for Worker Safety, Health and Well-being
Registration for our 2021 Spring Symposium on Friday, May 21st from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM PT is now open. The symposium will be covering the topic, Adapting to Climate Change for Worker Safety, Health...
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...
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....