Health Impacts Safety Meeting Guides
Health Impacts Safety meeting guides were developed to support organizations in integrating workplace safety, health, and well-being.
Health Impacts Safety are Total Worker Health® meeting guides on safety and health hazards. These guides are available to download for free. Each scripted guide takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Guides are intended to be used in a small to medium group setting, such as a safety or health committee meeting, toolbox meeting, or other team meetings. Use in conjunction with OR-FACE Toolbox Talks for an integrated safety, health, and well-being approach.
We offer an English version (instruction, calendar, 12-month meeting guides), as well as a Spanish version (10 meeting guides).
- Watch a video to learn more about how to use the guides. Download our master guide list
- Instructions and Calendar for A Year of Impact!
- Download the entire PDF in English (instruction, calendar, 12 monthly meeting guides) or Spanish (10 guides). Or, access each guide and instructions separately below.
TWH1 What's sleep got to do with it?
TWH1 What's sleep got to do with it? (Spanish)
Additional resources:
- OccHealthSci Sleep Topic
- Online video: What if you stopped sleeping (AsapSCIENCE)Harvard Sleep Medicine Sleep and Health Education Program
- National Sleep Foundation
- NIOSH Work Schedules: Shift work and long work hours
TWH2: What's my heart got to do with it?
Additional resources:
- OccHealthSci Total Worker Health & Wellness subtopic: Best Practices
- CDC Heart Health webpage
- American Heart Assoc. Warning signs of heart attack, stroke and cardiac arrest
TWH3: What's diabetes got to do with it
Additional resources:
TWH4: What's the sun got to do with it?
Additional resources:
- OccHealthSci Topic: Heat Stress and Sun Exposure
- NIOSH Fast Facts: Protecting Yourself from Sun Exposure
- OSHA Occupational Heat Exposure
- Skin Cancer Foundation: Download a Self Exam Body Map
TWH5: What's sitting got to do with it?
Additional resources:
- Occupational Health Science's Workplace Solutions to Get People Moving
- Washington Post's Don't Just Sit There!
- OccHealthSci Total Worker Health Subtopic: Best Practices - Moving at Work Solutions
TWH 6: What's eating got to do with it?
Additional resources:
- Harvard Healthy Eating Plate
- Oregon Health Authority Healthy Vending and Cafeterias
- Wellness@Work Eat Well
TWH 7: Presenteeism: Why work when you are sick?
TWH 7: Presentismo
Additional resources:
- Business-Know-How The Hidden Costs of Presenteeism: Causes and Solutions
- LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Psycho-Social Challenges of Managing Employee Illness: Presenteeism, Absenteeism and "Monday Effect" Oh My
TWH 8: What's stress got to do with it?
Additional resources:
- Are you stressed? Learn all about it!
- Stress at work: What about it?
- Watch EU-OSHA's "When Stress Strikes" at work. Looks familiar?
- How can your organization help prevent stress in the workplace?
- Learn to De-Stress, Monday and Everyday.
TWH 9: What's exercise got to do with it?
TWH 9: ¿Qué tiene que ver el ejercicio con esto?
Additional resources:
TWH 10: Distracted Driving/Safe Driving
Additional resources
- National Safety Council: Distracted driving resources
- OccHealthSci.org subtopic: Cell phones & distractions
- Distraction.gov Texting Campaign
- CDC Distracted Driving webpage
TWH 11: What's respect got to do with it?
TWH 11: Spanish version - coming soon
Additional resources
- Forbes: Four Steps Proven to Cultivate Workplace Civility
- OccHealthSci 2016 recorded symposium: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Impact on worker health and well-being
TWH 12: What's mindfulness got to do with it?
TWH 12: Spanish version coming soon
Additional resources
- OccHealthSci 2015 recorded symposium: Mindfulness and Total Worker Health
- OccHealthSci Resource Directory: Total Worker Health Topic, Best Practices - Mindfulness subtopic
These guides were developed by Dede Montgomery, Fred Berman, Anjali Rameshbabu, and reviewed by: Steven Shea, Kent Anger, Ryan Olson, Amanda McCullough, Brad Wipfli, Illa Gilbert-Jones, Diane Elliott, Kerry Kuehl, Leslie Hammer, and David Hurtado.
Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU and Oregon Healthy Workforce Center.
Special thanks to Edgard Ramirez and SAIF Corporation for their assistance with Spanish translations. SAIF is a NIOSH Total Worker HealthTM Affiliate.