A growing body of evidence supports the underlying concept that focusing on the health and safety of your workforce is good for the employees as well as your bottom line.
Launched in 2011, Total Worker Health™ (TWH) is an ambitious initiative by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to address health and safety holistically by eliminating the on-the-job, off-the-job division that has long existed between the two.
Bradley Corp., 95-year-old manufacturer of industry-leading commercial plumbing and washroom solutions, has been named among the 2015 winners of the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Healthiest Employers Awards.
Workplace intervention shows return on investment for employers
September 14, 2015
An effective program to reduce work-family conflict (WFC) leads to reduced turnover and other cost savings for employers, reports a study in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
Leadership summit discusses combining health protection (safety) with health promotion (well-being)
August 29, 2014
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), in collaboration with the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley, sponsored a two-day Leadership Roundtable on June 20-21, 2014 in Nashville, Tenn.
This article will focus on the first pillar — employee engagement — a fundamental necessity without which safety improvements are difficult at best and a good safety culture is virtually impossible.
NIOSH wants young, new workers to have core safety competencies
April 5, 2013
Business and civic leaders, the labor community, economists, and educators are talking about the future of the American workforce. As the saying goes, the future begins now. News stories abound about the “skills gap”—in nursing, manufacturing, engineering, computer technology and other fields—that require postsecondary technical education and training.
Regardless of company size, reducing health insurance costs has become the highest priority for most companies in the U.S., as employee health care costs continue to outpace inflation and earnings growth
As pressure remains strong to keep workers healthy, productive and on the job, a significant number of U.S. employers with onsite health centers are planning to expand the scope of services offered