Oregon & The Workplace

We appreciate both our strengths in collaborating with so many partners and the opportunities we have to further the sharing of knowledge.

Researchers demonstrated that supervisor support training interventions positively promote employee job, health and well-being outcomes.

Job stress has significant impacts on the short and long-term health and well-being of the U.S. workforce.

The Active Workplace toolkit is a science-based toolkit designed to help reduce sitting time at work.

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center has published a new Medium.com article titled, Learning from different industries to improve safety.

The Oregon Total Worker Health Alliance has been busy providing virtual Total Worker Health courses to people in OHSA Region 10.

OccHealthSci and partners at UW have completed studies on team truck drivers’ sleep, health, and well-being.

On our newest podcast episode we highlight the impacts of COVID-19 on the Latinx farm working community in Oregon.

We need to continually study the burden of injury to young workers across demographics, job types and industry to improve injury prevention.

We are pleased with the success of our COVID Conversation series, held twice monthly and continuing through June 2021.

Researchers identified a higher fatality risk among transportation workers over age 65 when compared to their younger counterparts.

Producing a voluntary standard that will assist organizations representing all sizes and industries as they implement a TWH approach.

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.

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

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

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

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

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