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TWH™ in Action! News Flash: Before December 22, Voice Your Input on Future Research, Practice and Policy for Worker Safety, Health and Well-being!

TWH™ in Action! News Flash: Before December 22, Voice Your Input on Future Research, Practice and Policy for Worker Safety, Health and Well-being!



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Dear NIOSH Total Worker HealthTM Colleague,

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Office for Total Worker Health™ has proposed a National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) meant to stimulate innovative research, practical applications, policy guidance, and capacity-building of health protection and health promotion practitioners across the Nation. We invite you to provide input on the top priority research, practice, and policy issues to include in the proposed National Total Worker HealthTM Agenda to help improve integrated workplace practices, prevent worker injury and illness, and advance worker safety, health, and well-being. The draft agenda is available for public comment, until closing of the federal docket on December 22, 2014, 11:59 pm EST.

“A growing body of science supports the effectiveness of integrating health protection programs with health promotion programs in efforts to create workplace interventions that advance worker safety, health and well-being,” said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D. “A National Agenda with stakeholder input and support is imperative in moving forward with the Total Worker Health strategy.”

The NIOSH Total Worker Health program is guided by the vision that both work-related factors and health factors beyond the workplace jointly contribute to many safety and health problems that confront today’s workers and their families. The Total Worker Health perspective is a broad-based, integrated approach and includes issues related to protecting the safety and health of workers in the work environment, preserving human resources through employment practices, and promoting health and well-being for individual workers.

The Proposed National Total Worker Health Agenda includes four strategic goals:
  1. Advance and conduct etiologic, surveillance, and intervention research that builds the evidence base for effectively integrating health protection and health promotion activities in the workplace.
  2. Increase the awareness and adoption of effective, integrated occupational safety and health protection and health promotion activities in the workplace.
  3. Create guidance for policies that promote integration of occupational safety and health protection and health promotion activities in the workplace.
  4. Build professional capacity to strengthen the Total Worker Health workforce and Total Worker Health field to support the development, growth, and maintenance of integrated occupational safety and health protection and health promotion activities in the workplace.

The NIOSH Office for Total Worker Health encourages all comments, and specifically seeks to address the following questions:
  • Do you see your own organization's goals reflected in the Proposed National Total Worker HealthAgenda?
  • What are the bridges between your own work and the Proposed National Total Worker HealthAgenda?
  • Are there any missing components or gaps in the Proposed National Total Worker Health Agenda?

To view the draft National Total Worker Health Agenda and to learn more, visitwww.cdc.gov/niosh/docket and search for NIOSH Docket 275.

Official written comments, identified by CDC-2014-0014 and docket number NIOSH-275, may be submitted by any of the following methods by 11:59 p.m. EST on December 22, 2014.
  • Internet via Federal rulemaking portal: All submissions received must include the agency name and docket number. All relevant comments, including any personal information provided, will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov
  • Mail: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    NIOSH Docket Office
    1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-34
    Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998

Need a little inspiration? Read the recently released Institute of Medicine Workshop Summary Report on Promising the Best Practices in Total Worker Health.

Please consider sharing this opportunity to provide public comment on future research and practice for Total Worker Health with your colleagues.

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