UPDATED Febuary 1, 2008
NIOSH is requesting public comment (Docket Number NIOSH 132) on a new resource document intended to facilitate the development of workplace programs, policies, and practices to sustain and improve workforce health: The Essential Elements of Effective Workplace Programs and Policies for Improving Worker Health and Wellbeing. The development and dissemination of these Elements as a useful tool is a key effort of the NIOSH WorkLife Initiative.
You may find instructions for submitting comments here.
Introducing the NIOSH WorkLife Initiative
NIOSH WorkLife Program Website
The WorkLife Initiative is the NIOSH response to the 2004 Steps
to a Healthier US Workforce Symposium. That Symposium, organized
by NIOSH with over 20 co-sponsors and 50 supporters, reviewed the
science, economics, and current practices coordinating health protection
and health promotion to improve the health of workers. Symposium
participants called on NIOSH to continue to show leadership in
promoting research, policy, and practice in these areas.
The first major NIOSH action in the Initiative was to issue a
RFA to establish Centers of Excellence. The awards for the two
new Centers for Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce were
announced in late 2006. Each Center will receive $1 million for
five years through a cooperative agreement to establish trans-disciplinary
research, education, and translation programs to facilitate the
integration of health protection and promotion in the workplace.
The grant recipients are Dr. Laura Punnett for the Center for the
Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace, at the University
of Massachusetts at Lowell and Dr. James Merchant for the Healthier
Workforce Center for Excellence at the University of Iowa. The
Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell will evaluate
several models for integrating health promotion with occupational
ergonomic and mental health interventions with a strong emphasis
on worker involvement. The University of Iowa Center will investigate
the effects of different integrated health protection and health
promotion programs tailored to meet the needs of three different
work environments. NIOSH will work with these Centers and our other
partners to improve the worklife of workers through implementation
of this important Worklife Initiative.
Download the WorkLife Fact Sheet
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Contacts
Tanya Headley
theadley@cdc.gov
304-285-6278
Teri Palermo
tpalermo@cdc.gov
304-285-5836
Gregory R. Wagner, M.D.
gwagner@cdc.gov
617-432-6434
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