Oregon & The Workplace

Have you ever thought about how safe, prepared or how your organization would respond to workplace violence?

Occupational health nurses truly get Total Worker Health.

The Be Super toolkit is an evidence-based program designed to help organizations in construction improve safety, health and well-being.

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

The Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is designed to recognize and promote effective safety and health management.

ORFACE program publishes a new fatality investigation report that examines lessons learned from a hot work explosion.

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.

While traditionally, the Hierarchy of Controls has been used as a means to help determine how to implement effective and feasible control.

Understanding and Addressing Gender Violence in Medical Training.

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...

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...

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.

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