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

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Human Resources 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.

CPH-NEW offers several on-demand courses to help human resource managers bring the Total Worker Health approach to their company.

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

CPH-NEW On-demand courses

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.

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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 online archive to view by topic.

Newsletter

CPH-NEW's quarterly newsletter provides information on worker health, safety and well-being. Join CPH-NEW’s mailing list or visit our online archive.

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)
    Presenter: Gretchen (Gigi) Petery, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
    This webinar 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)
    Presenter: Christine Ipsen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
    This webinar focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid work, and the impacts of remote work on employee health and worker well-being.

Cavallari, J., et al. (2024) Life Satisfaction and Job and Personal Resources Among Public Workers With Non-Standard Work Schedules. BMC Public Health.

Shaw, W., et al. (2023) The Job Leeway Scale: Initial Evaluation of a Self-report Measure of Health-Related Flexibility and Latitude at Work. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation.

Gilmer, D., et al. (2023) Relative Importance of Incivility and Loneliness in Occupational Health Outcomes. Occupational Health Science.

Roelofs, C. (2022) Total Worker Health Employer Preparedness: A Proposed Model and Survey of Human Resource Managers' Perceptions. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.

Marin, L., et al. (2021) Workplace Sexual Harassment and Vulnerabilities among Low-Wage Hispanic Women. Occupational Health Science.

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