Oregon & The Workplace

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.

Each year more than 200,000 post 9/11 veterans join the workforce, after having returned from Iraq or Afghanistan. The government offers...

Excavating is one of the most hazardous construction operations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports excavation and trench-related...

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...

In a recent paper in  Nature Scientific Reports , Drs. McCullough and Lloyd report findings on prevention of skin cancer with DNA repair...

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

Written by William Hersh (This entry is re-posted from the Informatics Professor Blog of our department chair, William Hersh, MD .)...

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...

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.

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

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.”

Researchers study the molecular mechanisms by which changes in SWS cause neuronal damage and movement defects.