An Integrative Total Worker Health Framework for Keeping Workers Safe and Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Human Factors
Jack T DennerleinGlorian Sorensen

Abstract

The aim was to recommend an integrated Total Worker Health (TWH) approach which embraces core human factors and ergonomic principles, supporting worker safety, health, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented challenges to workplace safety and health for workers and managers in essential businesses, including healthcare workers, grocery stores, delivery services, warehouses, and distribution centers. Essential workers need protection, accurate information, and a supportive work environment with an unwavering focus on effective infection control. The investigators reviewed emerging workplace recommendations for reducing workers' exposures to the novel coronavirus and the challenges to workers in protecting their health. Using a theoretical framework and guidelines for integrating safety and health management systems into an organization for TWH, the investigators adapted the framework's key characteristics to meet the specific worker safety and health issues for effective infection control, providing supports for increasing psychological demands while ensuring a safe work environment. The recommended approach includes six key characteristics: focusing on working conditions for infection...Continue Reading

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Dec 21, 2020·Social Science & Medicine·Glorian SorensenGregory R Wagner
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