Oregon Healthy Workforce Center

Outreach and Education Director, Dede Montgomery was a guest last speaker in a webinar for Convergence Training on fatigue in the workplace.
We have launched our new Total Worker Health Graduate Travel Award to support students presenting their research at regional and national conferences.
Registration information for our 2020 Spring Symposia on, "Workplace Aggression: A deeper dive" is coming soon. Our 2019 Fall Symposia webinar recordings for "Substance Use and the Workplace" are now available.
Leslie Hammer was invited by Cascade Centers EAP to speak in their Human Resources Webinar series on the topic, "The Role of Leaders in Reducing Work-Life Stress." The recording of the webinar is now available.
NIOSH releases book on Total Worker Health. It is an edited volume with chapters written by NIOSH and the Centers of Excellence including OHWC.
The Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences (where OHWC is housed), Oregon OSHA, and SAIF Corporation signed an alliance to join efforts to expand the knowledge and efforts of Total Worker Health® .

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Visit our new website, YourWorkpath.com to download Total Worker Health resources for safety, health, and well-being!
What's work got to do with your health? Our Health Impacts Safety guides can tell you! Go ahead and use these easy-to-use, self-guided, and free tools at your safety huddles and wellness meetings.
Looking for information on a specific work safety or health topic? Visit the OccHealthSci Resource Directory for curated information, tools, and related research on all things work-related.
We're improving the health, safety, and well-being of workers through effectiveness research, collaboration with partner organizations, and dissemination of evidence-based programs. Learn more about our current and past projects.

Anger, K., Rameshbabu, A., Parker, K., Wan, W., Hurtado, D., Olson, R., Rohlman, D., Wipfli, B., Bodner, T. (2019). Effectiveness of Total Worker Health Interventions: A Systematic Review. In Hudson, H.L., Nigam, J.A., Sauter, S.L., Chosewood, L.C., Schill, A.L. (Eds.). Total Worker Health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Hammer, L.B. & Perry, M. (2019). Reducing Work-Life Stress: The Place for Integrated Interventions. In H. L. Hudson, J. A. S. Nigam, S. L. Sauter, L. C. Chosewood, A. L. Schill, & J. Howard (Eds.). Total Worker Health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Aryal, A., Parish, M., Rohlman, D.S. (2019) Generalizability of the Total Worker Health^®online training for young Workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 (4).
Hammer, L. B., Truxillo, D. M., Bodner, T. Pytlovany, A. C., & Richman, A. (2019). Exploration of the impact of organizational context on a workplace safety and health intervention. Work and Stress, 33(2), 192-210.

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