e-Campus - Work Wellness Institute

The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has redefined occupational safety and health for the US as safety, health and well-being, which it has termed Total Worker Health® (TWH).  It has adapted the traditional Hierarchy of Controls, a prioritization strategy validated over decades of safety interventions, to apply to TWH efforts.  A literature review identified TWH interventions and categorized them according to the controls used from the adapted Hierarchy of Controls.

You will learn:

• Rationale for a Total Worker Health (TWH) intervention
• Restatement of the hierarchy of controls by NIOSH to reflect the TWH definition
• The range of TWH interventions that have had a positive impact on workplaces and workforces
• Which types of controls are used most frequently in TWH interventions
• How some TWH interventions used multiple controls while others used only one

Take-home messages:

• TWH intervention tactics from each Hierarchy level have produced measurable, positive changes in the workplace
• The majority of TWH interventions have employed control tactics or methods classified as Educate, the least preferred tactic
• Most interventions used more than one control strategy from the Hierarchy of Controls
• Most interventions were aimed at employees, often combined with supervisors

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