Despite improvements in occupational safety and health over the last several decades, today’s workers still report for duty to jobs with unacceptably high levels of work-related injury, illness, disability and death. To most effectively protect workers, lengthen productive life, reduce illness and disability, and sustain enterprises, we must think beyond traditional prevention strategies and technologies currently used in occupational safety, in the built environment, and in workplace health programs. The Total Worker Health® approach meets these challenges with novel strategies. Total Worker Health seeks to advance holistic worker well-being through policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention. This lecture will explore this approach and give participants critical guidance for the risks and rewards that lie ahead. So, is your job going to be the death of you? Join us to get real answers to real challenges.
