Oregon & The Workplace

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

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.

Chlorpyrifos was shown to produce persistent nervous system damage measured by a test of visual search and shifting focus in a study.

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

Scientists are working to understand factors at the genetic, epigenetic, cellular and organism level that help us understand human health.

New research will assess, validate, and extend SAIF’s current safety assessment model, the Ansbro Safety Culture Spectrum.

Explore whether areas of Oregon with more workers in high risk industry sectors also have higher levels of workplace injuries.

After OccHealthSci study, the Oregon Department of Corrections increased its emphasis on workplace well-being for correction officers.

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.

Toxicology uses the power of science to help predict what, and how chemicals may cause harm.

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

On August 9, 2019, Oregon became the eighth state in the country to pass a paid family leave bill.

Occupational health nurses truly get Total Worker Health.

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

oin in the National Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls in construction during the week of May 6-10, 2019.

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