TOTAL WORKER HEALTH™

Taking a Stand on Sedentary Work—Find out how we are reducing sedentary work at NIOSH
Totally Engaged in Hearing Loss Prevention—Employers prevent hearing loss at work and in the community
Making Healthy Food Choices Easy —Colorado employer is creating a healthy food environment

What is Total Worker Health?

Total Worker Health™ is a strategy integrating occupational safety and health protection with health promotion to prevent worker injury and illness and to advance health and well-being.

Today, emerging evidence recognizes that both work-related factors and health factors beyond the workplace jointly contribute to many health and safety problems that confront today’s workers and their families. Traditionally, workplace health and safety programs have been compartmentalized. Health protection programs have focused squarely on safety, reducing worker exposures to risk factors arising in the work environment itself. And most workplace health promotion programs have focused exclusively on lifestyle factors off-the-job that place workers at risk. A growing body of science supports the effectiveness of combining these efforts through workplace interventions that integrate health protection and health promotion programs.