Oregon Healthy Workforce Center

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC), a NIOSH Center of Excellence in Total Worker Health® was established in 2011. OHWC is housed within the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, a free-standing research institute at OHSU. Visit our about us page to learn more. Please contact us with any questions.

What's work got to do with it? Workplace safety, health and well-being podcast

Center News and Highlights

Recent News!

Thank you to all who attended our Spring 2019 Symposium on Friday, June 7th. Our symposia recordings and handouts will be available in July on our Training & Symposia page.
Our new Total Worker Health podcast episode is now available. We interviewed Dr. Casey Chosewood, MD, MPH, Director of the Office for Total Worker Health® at NIOSH on the importance of organizational support on worker safety, health and well-being. Listen to the episode or read the show transcript.
OHWC Director Kent Anger presented at a webinar event organized by the Work Wellness and Disability Prevention Institute: Organizational and Individual Intervention Methods that Improved Total Worker Health® in Construction Workers. Access the recording here. The talk was well received: Great presentation. Engagement throughout stayed at almost 100% kudos Kent! – .... look forward to sharing its application with my colleagues.
The Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences (where OHWC is housed), Oregon OSHA, and SAIF Corporation signed an alliance to join efforts to expand the knowledge and efforts of Total Worker Health® .
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center has been selected for continued funding by NIOSH. We look forward to an exciting next 5 years (2016-2021) of Total Worker Health® efforts!

Featured Blog Posts

Visit and subscribe to our Oregon and the Workplace blog for more updates.

Why Total Worker Health?

Total Worker Health®(TWH) is an approach that jointly addresses workplace factors such as hazard reduction and work redesign along with chronic illness prevention and health improvement in order to reduce injury, increase safety, and enhance worker well-being. To find out more, please refer to our page on (TWH).

Thinking about bringing TWH to your organization? Find out how to get started and get help from NIOSH's workbook on TWH.
NIOSH's list on topics relevant to advancing and achieving TWH.
What's new in TWH? Get updates from NIOSH's Total Worker Health in Action! eNewsletter
Listen to our TWH podcast episode for ideas and strategies to take the first step

Our Featured Resources

Visit our new website, YourWorkpath.com to download Total Worker Health resources for safety, health, and well-being!
What's work got to do with your health? Our Health Impacts Safety guides can tell you! Go ahead and use these easy-to-use, self-guided, and free tools at your safety huddles and wellness meetings.
Looking for information on a specific work safety or health topic? Visit the OccHealthSci Resource Directory for curated information, tools, and related research on all things work-related.

Our Publications

Recent Publications

Hurtado, D.A., Dumet, L.M., Greenspan, S.A., Rodriguez, Y.I., &Heinonen, G.A. (2018). Identifying safety peer leaders with Social Network Analysis. Occupational Health Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-018-0026-4
Hammer, L. B., Truxillo, D. M., Bodner, T. Pytlovany, A. C., & Richman, A. (in press). Exploration of the impact of organizational context on a workplace safety and health intervention. Work and Stress.
Anger, W.K., Kyler-Yano, J., Vaughn, K., Wipfli, B., Olson, R., Blanco, M. (2018). Total Worker Health® intervention for construction workers alters safety, health, well-being measures. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001290. [Epub ahead of print]
Hammer, L. B., Wan, W. H., Brockwood, K. J., Bodner, T., & Mohr, C. D. (2018). Supervisor Support Training Effects on Veteran Health and Work Outcomes in the Civilian Workplace. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000354