Total Worker Health® Approach Looks at All Aspects of Employee Safety, Health and Well-being

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As an occupational safety and health (OSH) professional, you understand the importance of looking at the big picture. OSH isn’t just how many days since the last accident; it is also protecting the mental and physical well-being of employees across the organization. 

The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) has been researching ways to improve worker safety and well-being for two decades by using NIOSH’s Total Worker Health (TWH) approach.

Wondering how to get started?

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

Courses & Training

CPH-NEW offers on-demand courses geared specifically for OSH professionals to help you bring the TWH approach to your company. 

  • Introduction to Total Worker Health Principles
  • Fundamentals of Total Worker Health Practice
  • Total Worker Health for Students (free)
  • Total Worker Health Employer Crisis Preparedness
  • Introduction to Job Stress for Safety and Health Professionals

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.

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 to view by topic.

Webinars 

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

Punnett, L. (2022) Response to NIOSH Request for Information on Interventions to Prevent Work-Related Stress and Support Health Worker Mental Health. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.

Punnett, L., et al. (2020) Defining "Integration" for Total Worker Health: A New Proposal. (2020) Annals of Work Exposures and Health.

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

Cherniack, M., et al. (2024) A 16-Year Chronicle of Developing a Healthy Workplace Participatory Program for Total Worker Health in the Connecticut Department of Correction: The Health Improvement through Employee Control (HITEC) Program. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Nobrega, S., et al. (2021) A mixed-method approach to tailor the implementation of a participatory Total Worker Health program. International Journal of Health Management.

Nobrega, S. and Zhang, Y. (2024) Let’s Learn Together! A Mixed-Methods Study to Assess Readiness for Interprofessional Education on Total Worker Health® Practice. Workplace Health & Safety.

Visit our publications page for a full list.