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NIOSH WorkLife Initiative

WorkLife 2007 Protecting and Promoting Worker Health a national symposium

Agenda

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9  

8:00am-7:00pm
Registration  
     
9:00am-5:00pm

Workshop I:
Practical Approaches to Evaluation:
Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Workforce while Addressing Business Needs

 
1:00pm-3:00pm Workshop II:
Making the Business Case for Health,
Safety, and Environmental Investments
 
1:00pm-4:15pm Workshop III:
Advances in Health and Productivity Management:
Good Health is Good Business
 
1:00pm-4:30pm Workshop IV:
Participatory Ergonomics as a
Model Approach to Health Promotion
 
5:00pm-7:00pm Poster Session I Set-up  
     
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10  

7:00am-6:00pm
Registration  
7:00am-8:30am Poster Session I Set-up  
8:30am-6:30pm Poster Session I Viewing  
8:30am-10:00am Plenary 1: It CAN Be Done! From Occupational
Health to Employee Health
 
10:00am - 10:30am Break  
10:30am-Noon

Concurrent Session 1:
Examples of Excellence:
Programs, Strategies, and Interventions

 
 

 

1-1 The Small Business Workforce:
Challenges and Opportunities for Success
 
 

 

1-2 The Aging Workforce: Keeping Older Workers … And Keeping Them Healthy  
 

 

1-3 Integrating Benefit Design for Health and Well-being  
 

 

1-4 Prevention and Healthcare Insurance: New Paradigms for Reimbursement  
 

 

1-5 Disease Prevention and Management: Strategies to Preserve and Promote Health  
 

 

1-6 Protecting and Promoting the Health of Non- Traditional, Low-Wage, and Immigrant Workers  
 

 

1-7 Submitted Abstract Presentations  
Noon-1:30pm Lunch  
1:30pm-2:45pm Plenary 2: Learning from the International
Experience
 
2:45pm-3:15pm Break  
3:15pm-4:45pm Concurrent Session 2: From Research to Practice: Moving the Research Forward  
   

2-1 Measuring the Success of Health Programs: Strategies for Evaluating Interventions in Different Contexts and Settings

 
   

2-2 Building Research Relationships:
The Worksite as a Laboratory

 
   

2-3 Making the Economic Case for Workplace Health

 
   

2-4 Creating A Successful Workplace Health Protection and Promotion Program: A Case Study

 
   

2-5 Work Schedules, Sleep, and Injury: Reducing the Health Risk from Difficult Work Hours

 
   

2-6 Defining Excellence: Performance Metrics that Drive and Improve Programs

 
   

2-7 Evidence-Based Strategies for Integrating
Occupational Health and Safety with
Workplace Health Promotion

 
4:45pm-6:30pm Poster Session I with the Authors and Reception  
6:30pm-7:30pm Poster Session I Tear Down  
7:30pm-8:30pm Poster Session II Set-up  

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
 
7:30am-4:30pm Registration  
7:30am-8:30am Poster Session II Set-up  
8:30am-3:30pm Poster Session II Viewing  
8:30am-9:45am Plenary 3:
Evaluating the Science: When Should
an Intervention be Considered Successful?
 
9:45am-10:15am Break  
9:45am-11:30am Poster Session II with the Authors  
10:15am-11:45am Concurrent Session 3:
Programs and Practices
to Prevent Disease or Improve Worker Health in
Specific Disease Areas or Conditions
 
   

3-1 Investing in Workplace Mental Health

 
   

3-2 Workplace Programs for Obesity
Prevention and Reduction

 
   

3-3 Reducing Cardiovascular Risk Among Workers

 
   

3-4 Healthy Activity In Work and Play:
Keeping Our Musculoskeletal System Strong

 
   

3-5 Motor Vehicle Safety: A Part of Comprehensive Workplace Health Programs

 
   

3-6 Respiratory Hazards at Work: How to
Identify, Prevent, and Reduce Them

 
   

3-7 Addressing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

 
11:45am-1:00pm Plenary 4:
Lunch with Speaker Workplace
Policies That Make a Healthy Difference
 
1:00pm-2:30pm Concurrent Session 4:
Managing Change: How to Establish and Maintain Organizational Commitment to Healthy Work and Healthy Workers
 
   

4-1 Making Worker Health an Organizational
Priority: A CEO-to-CEO Initiative

 
   

4-2 Using Communication Strategies to Promote a Safer and Healthier Workforce

 
   

4-3 CDC Research Grants to Advance Worksite Health Promotion

 
   

4-4 Barriers to Change and How to
Overcome Them

 
   

4-5 Research Priorities - Building Consensus for Future Work

 
   

4-6 Submitted Abstract Presentations

 
   

4-7 Submitted Abstract Presentations

 
2:30pm-2:45pm Break  
2:45pm-3:30pm Plenary 5: Closing and Adjourn  
3:30pm-5:00pm Poster Session II Tear Down  

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
 
Post Symposium Workshops  
7:30am-Noon Workshop Registration  
8:00am-Noon Workshop V: Facilitating Behavior
Change: A Different Perspective on
Non-compliance
 
     

To view presentations (approved by speakers) please go to https://www.team-psa.com/worklife2007/presentations.asp


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