Oregon & The Workplace

In this podcast episode, we hear from the Institute’s Safety Climate lab led by Dr. Emily Huang, Ph.D. and learn about safety climate.

Organizations with high safety climate scores enjoy improved ROI, a safer and healthier workplace and lower turnover rates.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Dr. Emily Huang recognized in an upcoming systematic network analysis of the first 4 decades of safety climate research globally.

Our Institute offers a big thank you to Oregon OSHA for initiating and implementing our state’s first ever Spanish safety conference.

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.

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

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...

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

Falls continue to be the leading cause of death in the construction industry. These deaths are preventable. A newly published fatality...