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

Each year more than 200,000 post 9/11 veterans join the workforce, after having returned from Iraq or Afghanistan. The government offers...

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?...

Excavating is one of the most hazardous construction operations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports excavation and trench-related...

At the  Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences  and  Oregon Healthy Workforce Center,  we are excited to announce the launch of...

The question “So what do you plan to do with your summer?” always leads to a discussion of my previous summer jobs, many of which haven’t...

OR-FACE  participated in multiple events during last week’s 5th annual National Safety Stand-down. #StandDown4Safety is part of OSHA’s...

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

Thank you labor and management partners!  Dr. Ryan Olson  and collaborators at OHSU and PSU were recently awarded a $3.5 million grant to...

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

During the past few months, several articles in the popular press have addressed the topic of loneliness and work. Many of the articles...

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...

Health and disease surveillance in many low-income countries is poor, such that disease outbreaks are recognized very slowly, sick people...

Falls continue to be the leading cause of death in the construction industry. These deaths are preventable. A newly published fatality...

Dr. Nicole Bowles, a postdoctoral researcher in  Dr. Steven Shea’s laboratory , recently presented several short seminars to the...

The  Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences  at OHSU and the  Oregon Healthy Workforce Center  hosted four colleagues from...

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...