Advancing Health, Safety and Well-being Across the Health Care Workforce

Picture of a male nurse helping an older man get out of bed efficiently and without injury to either of them. It demonstrates the ergonomics required for safe patient handling

Health care professionals are leaving the workforce at alarming rates, driven in part by burnout, stress and unsafe working conditions. Chronic understaffing and rising job demands are increasing the risk of injury and poor mental health among caregivers across the health care sector.

Through decades of research applying the Total Worker Health® approach, the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) has shown that participatory workplace programs strengthen healthcare worker health, satisfaction, and retention—creating workplaces that thrive for both people and organizations.

To learn more about how to improve health care worker well-being, explore the trainings, resources and research offered by CPH-NEW. Unionized organizations may also find helpful materials on our page for union leaders.

Promote Health Care Worker Well-Being and Safer, Healthier Workplaces Using a Total Worker Health (TWH) Approach

CPH-NEW offers both on-demand eLearning courses and virtual instructor-led training sessions. Both formats are taught by TWH experts. Instructor-led training sessionss are delivered at scheduled times, while eLearning courses are self-paced to accommodate flexible schedules. Several courses are designed specifically for health care workers and can support professional development requirements for nurses.

On-Demand eLearning Courses:

  • Ergonomics in Health Care
  • Job Stress for Today’s Nurse
  • Introduction to Total Worker Health Principles

Virtual Instructor-Led Training Sessions:

Browse the CPH-NEW Course Catalog

TWH Implementation Tools:

CPH-NEW’s Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) is designed specifically to help employer organizations adopt and implement programs with a TWH approach. The HWPP Toolkit facilitates employee engagement when addressing a wide range of work environment, work organization, safety, and employee health issues.

As a first step to beginning the HWPP, assess your organization’s resources and competencies by using CPH-NEW’s Organizational Readiness Toolkit.

HWPP Case Studies:

Issue Briefs:

CPH-NEW's News & Views page provides 2-page briefs on emerging topics related to worker health, safety and well-being. Visit our CPH News & Views online archive to view by topic.

These are the most recent articles. Visit our news page for a full list.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Resources:

Webinars:

Visit CPH-NEW’s YouTube channel to view their library of archived Total Worker Health Trends webinars.

  • Power of Policy for Healthcare Worker Wellbeing: What Does the Research Tell Us? Webinar (9/26/24) CPH-NEW collaborated with our neighboring NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence, the Harvard Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing (CWHW), to host this installment of the webinar series. This webinar features presentations on recent studies examining how laws, regulations, and organizational policy impact healthcare workers’ safety, health and well-being.

CPH-NEW's quarterly newsletter provides information on worker health, safety and well-being. Join CPH-NEW’s mailing list to receive the newsletter in your inbox or read the latest issue of the CPH-NEW Quarterly Newsletter to stay up to date with TWH happenings!

CPH-NEW Health Care Research Studies:

CPH-NEW Health Care Publications:

These are just a sampling of our relevant research. Visit our Publications page for a full list.

20 Years of Impact!

Explore From Research to Results (pdf) to discover how CPH-NEW turned two decades of research and workplace partnerships into measurable improvements in worker health and well-being.