Occupational Safety and Health Professionals

Advance Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being 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 sessions 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 for Students
• Total Worker Health Employer Crisis Preparedness
• Introduction to Job Stress for Safety and Health Professionals

Virtual Instructor-Led Training Sessions:

• Total Worker Health Facilitation Skills Training
• Building Total Worker Health Labor Leaders Train-the-Trainer Course

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.

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.

• Total Hearing Health - Protecting your hearing at home and at work. Issue #48

Webinars

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

• No One Whistles a Symphony: How to Integrate Safety with Operations Management Webinar (9/21/23) During this webinar, Peter Hasle, Ph.D., of the University of Southern Denmark, discusses how to improve organizational health and safety through organizational learning and change management, using change agents, intermediaries and collective teamwork to bridge departmental and occupational silos.
• Implementation Science Approaches for Occupational Safety and Health Research: Implications for Advancing Total Worker Health Webinar (10/27/22) Rebecca Guerin, Ph.D., shares her work and provides examples and insights about opportunities for leveraging implementation science methods, models, strategies, and measures in complex and dynamic workplace settings to increase worker safety, health, and well-being.
• Rethinking Well-being in the Evolving Workplace: A Holistic Approach Involving Technology, Ergonomics, and Work Webinar (10/19/2021) Michelle Robertson, Ph.D., a researcher and office systems expert, reviews how the new hybrid work system has affected individuals and organizations, focusing on strategies that use a work-systems perspective to promote worker well-being and performance.

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 Occupational Safety And Health Publications:

• 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.

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