• Registration is now open for our Spring Symposium on Friday, May 21st from 9AM to 3PM PST. This is a virtual, full-day event for academic researchers, occupational safety, health, and well-being professionals, and organizational leaders. The topic this year is Adapting to Climate Change for Worker Safety, Health, and Well-being. View the agenda and register here.
   
• We have launched YourWorkpath.com monthly drop-in "Toolkits and Tools Tour" on the last Tuesday of each month from 9AM to 10AM PST.  Learn more and sign up here. 
   

• Dr. Leslie Hammer was interviewed and quoted in ASSP.org's Safety Professional Journal  (SPJ) on Burnout Helping Employees Avoid & Weather the Challenges of Working From Home

• 2021 COVID-19 Conversations: Each second and fourth Tuesday of the month through June via WebEx from 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM, we speak with occupational health nurses, safety and health professionals and industrial hygienists in Oregon and Washington, All are  welcome to attend. Registration information is available here.
   
• OHWC Co-Director, Leslie Hammer gives a talk during NIOSH's first webinar in the new  series on the future of work. View the recording on, "The Role of Organizational Design in the Future of Work."
   
• The SHIP toolkit: user guide, templates and leadership slides were improved  to provide easier program implementation instructions, a more streamlined package and quick access to essential tools for every day practice. Translating research to practice is not an easy or fast process, and we are grateful for the support and feedback we received from our community and partnering organizations to help further develop and improve our toolkits.
   
• OHWC has a Medium.com page and released a new article on, "10 Things to Know About Total Worker Health", "How Managers Can Support Employee Well-being During a Pandemic" and "Looking for ways to support your employees? Start with work-life balance."
   
• Leslie Hammer, Ph.D. and David Hurtado Sc.D. is currently serving on the OHSU Covid Wellness Task Force. Drs. Hammer and Hurtado provided expert guidance and helped develop a wellness pulse survey in early May, asking the OHSU community to respond with information about their current psychological health and well-being, workplace experience and use of OHSU wellness resources.
   
• 2020 Summer Institute in Occupational Health Psychology, "Building a Culture of Health, Safety, and Well-Being ," webinar recordings and handouts are 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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Featured blog posts 

• Happy 50th to NIOSH
• 10 years at OHWC and YourWorkpath updates
• Safety climate podcast episode
• Vaccines and workplaces
• New podcast featuring our scientists
• Celebrating the relaunch of the SHIP toolkit
• Employee well-being during a pandemic
• Recruiting organizations for a Total Worker Health climate survey

• Visit our resources website, YourWorkpath.com to download Total Worker Health workplace safety, health, and well-being tools and toolkits.
• 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.
• Watch recorded webinars from previous Fall and Spring Symposiums and Summer Institute events.
• Looking for information on a specific work safety or health topic? Visit the OccHealthSci Resource Directory for curated information 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.

Recent publications

• Wipfli, B., Wild, S., Donovan, C., Hanson, G. C., & Thosar, S. S. (2021). Sedentary work and physiological markers of health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), 3230. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063230

• Hanson, G., Rameshbabu, A., Bodner, T., Hammer, L., Rohlman, D., Olson, R., Wipfli, B., Kuehl, K., Perrin, N., Alley, L., Schue, A., Thompson, S., Parish, M. (2021). A comparison of safety, health, and well-being risk factors across five occupational samples. Frontiers in Public Health, section Occupational Health and Safety, 9:614725. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.614725

• Wipfli, B., Wild, S., Hanson, G. C., Shea, S. A., Winters-Stone, K., & Thosar, S. S. (2021). The active workplace study: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial with sedentary workers. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 103, 106311. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2021.106311
• Olson, R., Johnson, P., Shea, S., Marino, M., Rimby, J., Womack, K., Wang, F., Springer, R., Donovan, C., & Rice, S. (2020). Advancing the safety, health, and well-being of commercial driving teams who sleep in moving semi-trucks: The Tech4rest pilot study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62 (12), 1082-1096. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002063

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• Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, a free-standing Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR, is the home institution for the OHWC.
• Portland State University, Occupational Health Psychology Program
• Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing 

In this pioneering book on Total Worker Health^®, NIOSH delves into the current landscape around work and the state of affairs with regard to worker well-being. OHWC members authored two chapters in the book:

Effectiveness of Total Worker Health® Interventions - Chapter 4
Reducing Work-Life Stress - Chapter 15

• Learn more and order the book
• Read the introduction