Oregon & The Workplace

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

What things can we do to reduce our health impact during wildfire smoke events?

We frequently remind ourselves and others that safety is foundational in Total Worker Health®.

Patient-assist injuries are a significant and costly occupational health problem for healthcare organizations.

Covid-19 is undoubtedly impacting our individual and collective mental health. Each one of us is going through stressful times right now.

The Institute’s Safety Climate Lab is validating a safety climate scale created specifically for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier this spring, Oregon OSHA issued a temporary rule addressing the COVID-19 emergency.

HHS reports that African Americans are 40% more likely to have high blood pressure.

Institute faculty members shared their expertise during the afternoon panel session of our Spring 2020 symposium.

The mission of the OccHealthSci is to improve the lives of workers through biomedical and occupational research.

OccHealthSci is pleased to launch a new portal to share tips and best practices for workforce well-being during the pandemic.

The article, What to Do If You’ve Lost Your Job Because of COVID-19 offers suggestions in the immediacy of being furloughed or losing work.

Occupational health and safety outcomes for employees with addiction are impacted by the workplaces' ability to address mental health needs.

Oregon joins other states with questions about the agriculture industry and risk of novel coronavirus exposure to farmworkers.

The compounding effects of the COVID-19 crisis continue to affect our physical, social, psychological, and economic well-being

Get workplace resources for COVID-19.

Learn strategies to improve the narrative in the workplace that can help create efficient, sustainable and healthy systems.

OccHealthSci makes Health Impacts Safety guides available to anyone interested in improving workplace safety.

Last week on World Mental Health Day, the first “National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention” were launched.

OR-FACE contractors Illa Gilbert-Jones and Steve Eversmeyer have published two new Fatality Investigation Reports.