A Total Worker Health (TWH) approach prioritizes a hazard-free work environment, while bringing together all aspects of work in integrated interventions that collectively address worker safety, health and well-being. Worker well-being is an integrative concept that characterizes quality of life with respect to an individual’s health and work related environmental, organizational and psychosocial factors. Creating a best in class TWH program doesn’t need to cost a lot of money, or take up a lot of time, and, best of all, the payoffs can lead to immediate and important impacts to your organization such as: better staff morale, higher profits, improved productivity, greater safety, and a commitment to sustainable practices that help improve the health of our planet.
This resource collection will help you transition to a TWH environment by covering the key elements that need to be deployed.
Employee well-being trends: A look ahead
Heightened job insecurity leads to an array of workforce mental and psychological health challenges, including increased stress, reduced engagement, and burnout. To mitigate these risks, organizations are learning to strike a balance between business success and ensuring the well-being of employees. Flexible working and return-to-office policies, transparent communication, and retention schemes are some of the ways businesses are taking care of the workforce. This brief discuses the trend toward prioritizing a commitment to worker needs to help build and maintain a productive, healthy workforce.
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Webinar: Total Worker Health® assessments that really work
While the NIOSH Total Worker Health® (TWH) program offers both employers and workers health and safety clarity, accountability and productivity, its often hard to apply. This session provides a practical process for assessing which aspects of TWH can be applied to virtually all industries and organizations by using a real-world example from one of the most highly-stressed occupational areas,
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Building the business case for a Total Worker Health approach
As mandated in President Biden's Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, more worker protections for infectious disease exposure and other hazards are being targeted for enforcement. This should cause organizations to review not only pandemic protections but something that is increasingly being categorized as Total Worker Health. This paper outlines what the scope of this type of program is, what its benefits are and how it can be implemented.
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Infographic: The impact of Total Worker Health
Total Worker Health® (TWH) is defined as policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness-prevention efforts to advance worker well-being. This approach offers a holistic model for improving workforce safety, health, and well-being. It does so through an integrated approach that prioritizes safety while simultaneously engaging in other workplace efforts (e.g., health promotion, healthy workplace design, employee training and development, injury and illness prevention efforts) to advance the overall well-being of workers. Use this handy infographic to summarize TWH's benefits and impacts for your organization.
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Health, Safety,and Well-being (HSW) and The future of work
The workplace is evolving. The remote, and subsequent hybrid work environment caused by the pandemic, globalization, labor shortages, advances in technology, and environmental, social, and governance pressures, have all led to a paradigm shift in HSW efforts. This summary document lists some of the key services BSI Consulting has developed for transitioning organizations into this new work reality including:
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ISO 45003: The first global workplace psychological health standard
ISO 45003 is the first global standard giving practical guidance on managing psychological health at work.. It provides guidance on the management of psychosocial risk, as part of an occupational health and safety management system. ISO 45003 also includes information on how to recognize the psychosocial hazards that can affect workers, such as those that arise from home working, as well as offers examples of effective – often simple - actions that can be taken to manage these and improve employee wellbeing. Other benefits include reduced absence from workplace stress, burnout, anxiety and depression, enhanced worker engagement, increased innovation, legal compliance, improved recruitment, retention and diversity. This brochure provides an overview of the standard.
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CDC NIOSH Total Worker Health program guide
The CDC and NIOSH's Total Worker Health Program promotes research into patterns of work organization and emerging forms of employment, recognizing that both occupational and non-occupational exposures can act together to produce worker illness and injury. By integrating the traditional focus on work-specific factors with attention to health conditions and the quality of working life, the TWH approach provides a pathway to improve worker creativity, innovation, and productivity by creating work and work environments that are safe, health-enhancing, meaningful and fulfilling. Read more about the program in this CDC guidance document.
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NIOSH worker health questionnaire
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (NIOSH WellBQ) provides an integrated assessment of worker well-being across multiple spheres, including individuals’ quality of working life, circumstances outside of work, and physical and mental health status. The questionnaire measures “worker” well-being as a holistic construct rather than simply “workplace” or “work-related” well-being. The NIOSH WellBQ is intended to help researchers, employers, workers, practitioners, and policymakers understand the well-being of workers and target interventions to improve worker well-being, among other applications. This questionnaire also offers instructions for implementing, scoring and interpreting data.
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EHS, well-being and sustainability services and solutions
BSI Consulting provides a comprehensive range of strategic, management and technical consulting solutions. We take a partnership approach to our client engagements to ensure we meet the needs of our clients at the scale they require. Take a quick look at our deep bench of technical expertise.
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How expert safety guidance from BSI helps
Creating an effective, risk managed and low liability workplace health program often requires outside perspectives, broad ranges of experience and implementation help. BSI's consulting services include, Total Worker Health®, robotics safety, Prioritization of Issues (POI), Optimizing employee safety programs and safety culture, EHS training, risk management plans/process safety management (RMP/PSM), job hazard assessments, business continuity and disaster recovery, accident investigation/root cause analyses/corrective action, emergency response and preparedness management safety management software. Contact us at any point in your process to review the issues facing you as you craft your workplace health and safety programs.
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