Future of Work Initiative: Resources List
Future of Work Resources List
The NIOSH Future of Work Initiative serves as an overarching structure to coordinate activities across the Institute related to the changing nature of the workplace, work, and workforce. The following highlights NIOSH publications by priority topic, as well as select external resources on the future of work. To learn more about future of work-related research and practice-based activities across NIOSH programs, please visit the NIOSH programs page.
This information will be updated regularly, so please check back.
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Autonomy • Burnout and Stress Prevention • Healthy Leadership • Job Flexibility • Leave Systems • Scheduling • Social and Corporate Responsibility • Workplace Built Environment • Workspace • Work-Life Fit
- NIOSH Publications
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- The Role of Organizational Design in the Future of Work
- Work Flexibility and Work-Related Well-Being
- Precarious work, job stress, and health‐related quality of life
- Total Worker Health® 2014–2018: The Novel Approach to Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being Evolves
- The association between job insecurity and engagement of employees at work
- Degree of Integration Between Occupational Safety and Health Programs and Wellness Programs: First-year Results from an Insurer-Sponsored Wellness Grant for Smaller Employers
- Potential economic benefits of paid sick leave in reducing absenteeism related to the spread of influenza-like illness
- Employment arrangement, job stress, and health-related quality of life
- Association between parental access to paid sick leave and children’s access to and use of healthcare
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Automation • Digitalization • Job Quantity and Quality • Occupational Polarization • Productivity Enhancement and Quality Improvement through Automated Manufacturing • Stable, New, and Redundant Work
- NIOSH Publications
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- Selected priority sub-topics include: Alternative • App-Based • Contingent • Contractual • Direct Hire • Distributed • Free-Lancer • Job Sharing • Non-Standard • On-Call • On-Demand • Part-Time • Platform • Precarious • Seasonal • Single vs. Multi-Employers • Temporary
- NIOSH Publications
- Precarious work, job stress, and health‐related quality of life
- Comparative analyses of workers’ compensation claims of injury among temporary and permanent employed workers in Ohio
- Health insurance coverage among U.S. workers: differences by work arrangements in 2010 and 2015
- Employment arrangement, job stress, and health-related quality of life
- Nonstandard work arrangements and worker health and safety
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Deep Learning • Machine Learning • Neural Networks
- NIOSH Publications
- The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Future of Work
- Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Future of Work
- Applying Machine Learning to Workers’ Compensation Data to Identify Industry-Specific Ergonomic and Safety Prevention Priorities: Ohio, 2001 to 2011
- Comparison of methods for auto-coding causation of injury narratives
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Autonomous, Collaborative, Industrial, Managerial, Service, and Social Robots • Autonomous Vehicles • Human-Machine Interaction • Unmanned Aerial Systems • Wearable Exoskeletons and Exo-suits
- NIOSH Publications
- The Role of Robotics in the Future of Work
- Industrial Exoskeletons
- Preparing Your Fleet for Automated Vehicles
- Program Performance One-Pager, Center for Robotics Research
- Proceedings of the 2018 Ergo-X Symposium: Exoskeletons in the Workplace — Assessing Safety, Usability, and Productivity
- NIOSH Presents: An Occupational Safety and Health Perspective on Robotics Applications in the Workplace
- Can drones make construction safer?
- Exoskeletons in Construction: Will They Reduce or Create Hazards?
- Wearable Exoskeletons to Reduce Physical Load at Work
- Fatal accident summary report: Die cast operator pinned by robot
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Additive and Smart Manufacturing, and 3D Printing • Advanced, Cloud, and Quantum Computing • Bio-Manufacturing • Bio-Technology • Clean and Green Technologies • Digitalization • Information and Communication Technologies • Internet-of-Things • Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials • Sensors • Sensor Surveillance • Smart Personal Protective Equipment
- NIOSH Publications
- Advanced sensor technologies and the future of work
- Advanced Sensor Technologies and the Future of Work
- Development of a Wearable IMU System for Automatically Assessing Lifting Risk Factors
- Reducing ultrafine particulate emission from multiple 3D printers in an office environment using a prototype engineering control
- 3D Printing with Filaments: Health and Safety Questions to Ask
- 3D Printing with Metal Powders: Health and Safety Questions to Ask
- Potential Occupational Hazards of Additive Manufacturing
- The Impact of Technology on Work and the Workforce
- The NIOSH Advanced Manufacturing Initiative
- Continuing to Protect the Nanotechnology Workforce: NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Plan for 2018 – 2025
- Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during Nanomaterial Reactor Operations
- Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during the Handling of Nanomaterials
- Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during Intermediate and Downstream Processing of Nanomaterials
- Characterizing 3D Printing Emissions and Controls in an Office Environment
- Wearable Sensors: An Ethical Framework for Decision-Making
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Diversity and Inclusivity • Multi-Generational • Productive Aging • Vulnerable
- NIOSH Publications
- Health Equity and a Paradigm Shift in Occupational Safety and Health
- The Role of Demographics in the Future of Work
- Applying the Social Vulnerability Index as a Leading Indicator to Protect Fire-Based Emergency Medical Service Responders’ Health
- Heart Attacks, Bloody Noses, and Other” Emotional Problems”: Cultural and Conceptual Issues with the Spanish Translation of Self-Report Emotional Health Items. Family & Community Health
- Differences in safety training among smaller and larger construction firms with non-native workers: Evidence of overlapping vulnerabilities
- Work as an inclusive part of population health inequities research and prevention
- Explaining racial/ethnic differences in all-cause mortality in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA): Substantive complexity and hazardous working conditions as mediating factors
- Promotion of alternative-sized personal protective equipment
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Adequate Wages • Equitable and Commensurate Compensation and Benefits • Minimum Guaranteed Hours
- NIOSH Publications
- Selected priority sub-topics include: Continual Education, Learning, and Training • Re-Skilling and Up-Skilling
- NIOSH Publications
- A qualitative investigation of factors affecting school district administrators’ decision to adopt a national young worker curriculum
- An application of a modified theory of planned behavior model to investigate adolescents’ job safety knowledge, norms, attitude and intention to enact workplace safety and health skills
- Preparing teens to stay safe and healthy on the job: a multilevel evaluation of the Talking Safety curriculum for middle schools and high schools
- Using a modified theory of planned behavior to examine adolescents’ workplace safety and health knowledge, perceptions, and intentions: A structural equation modeling approach
- Promising Occupational Safety, Health, and Well-Being Approaches to Explore the Future of Work in the USA: An Editorial
- Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Advance Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being
- Envisioning the future of work to safeguard the safety, health, and well-being of the workforce: A perspective from the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Potential Scenarios and Hazards in the Work of the Future: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed and Gray Literatures
- How Will the Future of Work Shape the OSH Professional of the Future? A Workshop Summary
- A global perspective on addressing occupational safety and health hazards in the future of work
- Toward an Expanded Focus for Occupational Safety and Health
- Labor Day 2019 Message: Future of Work and Total Worker Health
- Find NIOSH Science Blogs on topics related to the future of work
- Expanding Research Partnerships Webinar Series
- VIDEO: UN Web TV “Safety and Health and the Future of Work”featuring participation by NIOSH Director, John Howard, MD
- Safety and Health at the Heart of the Future of Work: Building on 100 years of experience
- Need for a new workplace safety and health (WSH) strategy for the fourth Industrial Revolution
- Work for a Brighter Future, Global Commission on the Future of Work
- ‘Historical and emerging challenges’: A Q&A with NIOSH Director John Howard
- Future of Work Task Force Plan of Action for 2019
- The Future of Jobs Report for 2018
- The Future of Work: A Literature Review
- Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and Their Implications
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