Oregon & The Workplace

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...

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

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

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...

OR-FACE (Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program) was excited to participate in the 2017 Oregon Governor’s Occupational...

Partners come together to launch the Oregon Total Worker Health Alliance.

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

the MESH study will train supervisors to support service members in their units around work-life stress and sleep health.

Safety communication is an integral part of maintaining an injury prevention culture.

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

Maintaining an injury prevention culture requires many components, and safety communication is fundamental to that goal.

The biennial conference brought together policy makers, educators, business leaders and professionals in the construction trades.

Being part of OHSU Global Health SE Asia has given us a terrific opportunity to collaboratively learn with our Thai partners.

Research shows as many as 80% of young workers don’t receive safety training.

It just takes a second or less to lose our footing no matter what we are doing.

OR-FACE published a new hazard alert, “Follow manufacturer’s instructions.”

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