Promising and Best Practices in Total Worker Health Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Statements, recommendations, and opinions expressed are those of individual presenters and participants, and are not necessarily endorsed or verified by the Institute of Medicine, and they should not be construed as reflecting any group consensus. 2 The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health asserts common law trademark rights for the term Total Worker Health.
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BOX 1-1 Statement of Task An ad hoc planning committee of the Institute of Medicine will develop and conduct a public workshop focused on identifying prevalent and best practices in programs that integrate occupational safety and health protec tion with health promotion in small, medium, and large workplaces; em ployer and employee associations; academia; government agencies; and other stakeholder groups. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions on: • Best or promising practices associated with the design, implemen tation, and evaluation of an integrated approach to worker health, including factors associated with successful implementation; • Barriers to implementing integrated occupational safety and health protection and health promotion programs and ideas for overcom ing those barriers; and • Measures being used or considered for evaluating the effectiveness of programs that integrate occupational safety and health protec tion with health promotion.
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; the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center; the University of Iowa Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence; and the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being. See more information at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/twh/centers.html (accessed July 21, 2014)
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Traditionally, he told workshop participants, public health programs for workers were separated from a community's other health-related initiatives, effectively partitioning people into parts. Although in occupational safety and health programs, the bedrock purpose is to protect workers from all sorts of workplace hazards -- physical, chemical, biological, and radiological -- the idea of integrating health promotion with these traditional activities was fundamental to NIOSH's 2004 program, Steps to a Healthier U.S.
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He welcomed "a robust critical dialogue about all of these issues." Therefore, while the workshop focused on examining best and promising practices in pursuing Total Worker Health, several participants provided critiques of the Total Worker Health initiative overall, citing the need to focus on safety issues first before adding health promotion programs. ORGANIZATION OF THE SUMMARY REPORT This workshop summary is limited to describing the presentations given and general topics discussed during the workshop itself.
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