Total Worker Health: Promising and Best Practices in the
Integration of Occupational Safety and Health Protection with
Health Promotion in the Workplace—A Workshop
May 22, 2014
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Room 120
Washington, DC 20418
Sponsored by:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Workshop Objectives
- Identify best or promising practices associated with the design, implementation, and evaluation of an integrated approach to worker health, including factors associated with successful implementation.
- Discuss barriers to implementing integrated occupational safety and health protection and health promotion programs and ideas for overcoming those barriers.
- Explore measures being used or considered for evaluating the effectiveness of programs that integrate occupational safety and health protection with health promotion.
8:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Glorian Sorensen, Workshop Chair Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
SPONSOR’S REMARKS NIOSH VISION OF TOTAL WORKER HEALTH
9:00 a.m. |
John Howard NIOSH |
KEYNOTE: TOTAL WORKER HEALTH IN THE REAL WORLD
9:30 a.m. |
Robert McLellan Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center |
SESSION I
WHAT IS THE VALUE IN PURSUING TOTAL WORKER HEALTH?
10:00 a.m. |
Introductions Pamela Hymel (Moderator) Walt Disney Parks and Resorts |
10:05 a.m. |
Speakers Jules Duval Smithsonian Institution Kathleen M. McPhaul U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Peter Wald USAA |
10:50 a.m. |
Discussion with Speakers and Audience |
11:15 a.m. |
A Labor Perspective on the Value in Total Worker Health Nancy Lessin United Steelworkers–Tony Mazzocchi Center |
11:30 a.m. |
Discussion with Speakers and Audience |
11:35 a.m. |
LUNCH |
SESSION II
LARGE BUSINESSES
Questions:
- How are you approaching integration? What could it look like ideally?
- What innovative approaches are being used to achieve integration?
- What are the barriers to full integration, and what strategies are being used to overcome those barriers?
- Are there different approaches for different workforces?
12:15 p.m. |
Introductions Ron Z. Goetzel (Moderator) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Truven Health Analytics |
12:20 p.m. |
Speakers Michael Carson The Dow Chemical Company Maribeth Rouseff Baptist Health South Florida, Inc. Andrew Scibelli NextEra Energy, Inc. Laura Welch Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) |
1:20 p.m. |
Discussion with Speakers and Audience |
1:50 p.m. |
BREAK |
SESSION III
SMALL- AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES
Questions:
- How are you approaching integration? What could it look like ideally?
- What innovative approaches are being used to achieve integration?
- What are the barriers to full integration, and what strategies are being used to overcome those barriers?
- Are there different approaches for different workforces?
2:15 p.m. |
Introductions Chia-Chia Chang (Moderator) NIOSH |
2:20 p.m. |
Speakers Greg Howe Lincoln Industries Lee S. Newman Colorado School of Public Health and Axion Health, Inc. Joe Nguyen IUE-CWA Local 84913 |
3:05 p.m. |
Discussion with Speakers and Audience |
SESSION IV
REACTORS PANEL AND DISCUSSION
3:30 p.m. |
Reactors Glorian Sorensen (Moderator) Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute LuAnn Heinen National Business Group on Health Nicolaas P. Pronk HealthPartners, Inc. Margaret Robbins Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions |
3:50 p.m. |
Discussion with Speakers and Audience |
4:00 p.m. |
ADJOURN |