Oregon & The Workplace

Over the last two years, Dr. Emily Huang’s Safety Climate Lab had the pleasure of collaborating with the Safety and Health Division of SAIF.

OccHealthSci's research areas include basic, clinical and applied research, in addition to our very active outreach and education team.

Fortis Construction and Emily Huang’s Safety Climate Lab recently concluded their second collaborative safety climate assessment.

We appreciate both our strengths in collaborating with so many partners and the opportunities we have to further the sharing of knowledge.

Researchers demonstrated that supervisor support training interventions positively promote employee job, health and well-being outcomes.

Social factors like racism and classism have a huge influence over where a person has the opportunity to work.

Oregon OSHA renews partnership with the Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program.

In our latest podcast episode, we learn about Román Baca’s work in supporting veterans through art and dance.

Job stress has significant impacts on the short and long-term health and well-being of the U.S. workforce.

The Active Workplace toolkit is a science-based toolkit designed to help reduce sitting time at work.

In the latest episode of the What's Work Got To Do With It podcast, we learn about the impacts of shift schedules on firefighter safety.

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center has published a new Medium.com article titled, Learning from different industries to improve safety.

OccHealthSci and partners at UW have completed studies on team truck drivers’ sleep, health, and well-being.

The Veteran Supportive Supervisor Training program is now freely available and suited to support supervisors and Veterans in the workforce.

We need to continually study the burden of injury to young workers across demographics, job types and industry to improve injury prevention.

How will those who depended on cannabis while experiencing joblessness or working remotely transition effectively back to the office?

Researchers identified a higher fatality risk among transportation workers over age 65 when compared to their younger counterparts.

In this podcast episode, we hear from the Institute’s Safety Climate lab led by Dr. Emily Huang, Ph.D. and learn about safety climate.

Organizations with high safety climate scores enjoy improved ROI, a safer and healthier workplace and lower turnover rates.

SHIP provides online training, templates, and guides for supervisors and managers to help improve the safety of employees.