The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has announced the release of its edited volume on Total Worker Health.

What happens if an earthquake hits in the middle of your workday?

Total Worker Health® is a holistic approach to worker well-being. The foundation of Total Worker Health is to keep workers safe and healthy.

Understanding and Addressing Gender Violence in Medical Training.

SafeBuild Alliance has completed an Oregon OSHA training grant designed to educate construction workers on mental health and suicide prevent

Have you ever gone to work after a bad night of sleep? How productive were you at work that day? Did it make you eat any differently?...

Prevention, best practices – these are key ingredients for staying safe on the job. As safety and health professionals we continually...

Earlier this month we blogged about loneliness, which serves to remind all of us about the importance of our relationships with the...

I was recently asked by the NIOSH  (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) Science Blog Administrator if something new...

In a recent paper in  Nature Scientific Reports , Drs. McCullough and Lloyd report findings on prevention of skin cancer with DNA repair...

Written by William Hersh (This entry is re-posted from the Informatics Professor Blog of our department chair, William Hersh, MD .)...

Research studies that began in 2011 at the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) have resulted in four toolkits that we are eager to...

How often do we learn about an accident or near miss, only to recognize that the same incident occurred recently during the same or...

Cannabis (marijuana) use is on the rise. Twenty-nine US States have legalized medical cannabis and 7 (including Oregon) have approved...

Lead is not particularly difficult to measure and detect, it requires knowledge, discipline, and usually resources to effectively remedy.

Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University joined forces to create a new School of Public Health.

If you have to use pesticides, do it correctly by reading and understanding the label before you open the container!

Potentially unsafe levels of arsenic and cadmium have been detected in the air of Southeast Portland.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announced the awards on September 14.

It is important to remember that the best way to prevent heat-related illness is to keep workers cool and hydrated throughout the day.