Total Worker Health Resources and Tools

Total Worker Health Resources

Healthier Workforce Center for the Midwest offers a selection of videos in which experts and small business industry leaders share their expertise, tips and experiences.

Visit the Healthier Workforce Center's website for more resources

NIOSH also offers several resources:

• Total Worker Health practices
• Total Worker Health issues

Total Worker Health Tools

The tools listed are recommended because they are practical to use and evidence based. They were selected based on their quality and usefulness to occupational safety and health professionals.

Basic

Resources for safety professionals seeking to understand Total Worker Health.

• NIOSH: Let’s Get Started
• NIOSH: Fundamentals of Total Worker Health Approaches — Essential Elements for Advancing Worker Safety, Health and Well-Being

Intermediate

Resources for safety professionals seeking to further understand the Total Worker Health framework and ways in which they can start to implement it in their workplace.

General Tools

• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Health and Productivity Management Center
• Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest: Total Worker Health Workplace Resources
• Oregon Healthy Workforce Center: Health Impact Safety Toolbox and Safety Meeting Guides
• St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition: Total Worker Health Employer Guide
• State of California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation: The Whole Worker — Guidelines for Integrating Occupational Health and Safety with Workplace Wellness Programs
• SAIF: Integrating Health and Safety

Surveys, Scorecards and Calculators

• NIOSH: Planning, Assessing and Evaluating Total Worker Health
• Center for Work, Health and Well-Being: Workplace Integrated Safety and Health Assessment
• NIOSH: Quality of Worklife Survey
• Center for Health, Work and Environment: Health Risk Calculator

Advanced

Resources for safety professionals seeking more detailed guidance, example/model programs and mentoring on how to implement Total Worker Health in their workplace.

Toolkits and Programs

• Center for Work, Health and Well-Being: Guidelines for Implementing an Integrated Approach
• Center for Health, Work and Environment: Health Links
• Oregon Healthy Workforce Center: Improving Employee Safety, Health and Well-Being Through Supervisor Support and Team Effectiveness
• Oregon Healthy Workforce Center: Be Super! Tools for Construction Workers
• Oregon Healthy Workforce Center: COMPASS - COMmunity of Practice and Safety Support for Home Healthcare Workers
• Center for the Promotion of Worker Health in the New England Workplace: Healthy Workplace Participatory Program

Policies and Program Effectiveness Evaluation

• AIHA®: Value Strategy Manual
• American Heart Association: Workplace Health Achievement Index
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Corporate Health Achievement Award
• NIOSH: Organization of Work — Measurement Tools for Research and Practice
• NIOSH: Guide to Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Work Injuries
• HERO: Health and Well-Being Scorecard
• CDC: Quality of Worklife Questionnaire

Behavioral Health

• American Psychiatric Association Foundation: Center for Workplace Mental Health — Employer Resources
• Mental Health at Work: Promoting a Positive Culture Toolkit
• U.K. Health and Safety Executive: Workbook for Tackling Work-Related Stress Using the Management Standards Approach
• Center for the Promotion of Worker Health in the New England Workplace: Stress@Work
• Mental Health Commission of Canada: Voluntary Mental Health Standard and Implementation Guide
• OSHA: Topic Page on Long Work Hours, Extended or Irregular Shifts, and Worker Fatigue
• American Psychological Association: Center for Organizational Excellence — Resources for Employers
• Great-West Life Center for Mental Health in the Workplace: Workplace Mental Health Strategies
• International Labor Organization: Stress Prevention at Work Checkpoints
• American Heart Association’s CEO Roundtable Report on Mental Health With Recommendations

Wellness and Health Promotion

• International Labor Organization: The SOLVE Training Package — Integrating Health Promotion into Workplace OSH Policies
• The Change Agent Workgroup: Employer Health Asset Management — A Road Map for Improving the Health of Your Employees and Your Organization
  
• Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces: Finding Fit — Implementing Wellness Programs Successfully
• The Monday Campaigns
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: From Evidence to Practice — Workplace Wellness That Works
• International Labor Organization: Physical Activity Tools and Resources
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Promoting Healthy Workplaces
• CDC: Workplace Health Promotion Page

NIOSH Centers of Excellence in Total Worker Health

• Center for Health, Work and Environment
• Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest
• The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
• Harvard Center for Work, Health and Well-Being
• The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center
• University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work

Total Worker Health Education

• Center for Health, Work and Environment: Online, Graduate-Level Certificate in Total Worker Health
• Northern Kentucky University’s Total Worker Health Certificate
• Western Kentucky University Graduate Certificate in Workplace Health Promotion
• NIOSH Calendar of Total Worker Health Training and Conferences

Other Resources

• Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility: The Livable Jobs Toolkit
• U.S. Department of Labor: Return-to-Work Toolkit for Employees and Employers
• Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion: Inclusion@Work — A Framework for Building a Disability-Inclusive Organization
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Culture of Health Resources