Using a Total Worker Health® Approach to Keep Your Employees Safe and Well

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Human Resources (HR) managers are critical for ensuring that organizations have the right people, training, and policies for peak performance. The Total Worker Health (TWH) approach can increase employee satisfaction, improve retention and ensure employees are safe and well to achieve their potential.

The TWH program was created by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) with the intention of improving worker health across the country. The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) is one of 10 Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health.

Backed by 20 years of experience, CPH-NEW can empower you to implement the TWH program in your organization.

Wondering how to get started?

Below you’ll find courses and resources to help you bring TWH to your organization.

Support Worker Well-Being and Build 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 trainings are delivered at scheduled times, while eLearning courses are self-paced to accommodate flexible schedules.

On-Demand eLearning Courses:

  • Introduction to Total Worker Health Principles
  • Fundamentals of Total Worker Health Practice
  • Total Worker Health Employer Crisis Preparedness
  • Introduction to Job Stress

Virtual Instructor-Led Training Sessions:

Browse the CPH-NEW Course Catalog

Total Worker Health® (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.

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.

Webinars

Visit CPH-NEW’s YouTube channel to view the Total Worker Health Trends webinars.

  • Supporting Aging Workers: Overcoming Workplace Ageism Webinar (2/1/2023) During this webinar, Presenter Gretchen (Gigi) Petery, Ph.D from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) discusses common and socially acceptable ageist beliefs and research on the validity of those beliefs; the consequences of workplace ageism to workers, to organizations, and to society; and management strategies for combatting ageism.
  • Hybrid Work Is Not Just About Geography - It Is an Organizational Change (6/14/2022) Christine Ipsen, Ph.D., from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)(, discusses her research, which focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid work, and the impacts of remote work on employee health and worker well-being during this webinar.

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 Human Resources 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.