Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, a NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence
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Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest
The vision of the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest is to create a safe, healthy, and productive workforce through basic and applied research, participatory approaches, and theory driven education and translation activities. The HWC is a collaboration which includes the University of Iowa, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Kansas Medical Center, WorkWell KS, and two NIOSH Total Worker Health? Affiliates (the Nebraska Safety Council and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition).
Robotics Safety and Health Research at the NIOSH Center for Occupational Robotics Research
Extensive research has been conducted by NIOSH and others on the safety of robots since they were first introduced to workplaces more than 40 years ago. However, this research focused on traditional robots that were isolated from human workers using guards, cages, or other controls. As robots have become more advanced, interactions with humans have become more common, and new ways of assessing and controlling the hazards associated with a robotic workplace are needed. The Center for Occupational Robotics Research (CORR) was established in 2017 as a virtual center within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to work in partnership with other federal agencies, academic researchers, employers, and others to conduct research and disseminate guidance on the safety and health concerns of working around robots.
Wearable sensors: benefits and challenges for safety, stress, and health in the workplace
Emanuele Cauda, PhD, NIOSH; John Snawder, PhD, NIOSH; Pramod Kulkarni, PhD, NIOSH Wearable sensor technologies (wearables) are a topic of great interest for the NIOSH Center for Direct Reading and Sensor Technologies (CDRST). The CDRST is one of the NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)Core and Specialty Programs. Wearables are used in several applications …
Are Prosocial Job Characteristics For Everyone? The Job Impact Framework, Personality, and Emotional Labor
This study examined the moderating relationships of prosocial personality, extroversion, and emotional labor on prosocial job characteristics (PSJC) and burnout and work-related negative affect. Extroversion moderated the relationship between PSJC and burnout. Contrary to hypotheses, PSJC were associated with negative affect, and low levels of deep acting buffered the relationship. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to consider detrimental outcomes from the job impact framework.
The 2021 U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey
This is the fifth national scientific survey of the prevalence and nature of abusive conduct in the American workplace commissioned by the Workplace Bullying Institute and run by pollster Zogby Analytics. The prevalence rate of direct experience rose by half to 30% of adult Americans compared to the last sampling in 2017. The 2021 survey followed a year in which the number of remote workers exploded due to COVID; the bullying rate for that population was 43.2%. While #MeToo raises alarm over workplace sexual harassment, employment law and public attention ignore workplace bullying which, according to this survey, affects 79.3 million U.S. workers through direct and vicarious experiences.
Workplace Telepressure and Employee Performance – Are There Any Benefits That Offset Well-Being Costs?
This study explored whether the urge to respond to work-based messages rapidly (i.e., workplace telepressure) is related to different self-reported performance behaviors in addition to employee well-being, and whether low workload alters the effects of workplace telepressure on performance and well-being. The results suggest that workplace telepressure had well-being costs (work fatigue, sleep problems, and poor satisfaction with work-life balance) with mixed benefits to performance. (organizational citizenship only). Telepressure was unrelated to in-role performance behavior, but predicted higher levels of both organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior. The effects of workplace telepressure on performance and well-being outcomes did not change based on employee levels of workload, although the links between telepressure and some outcomes (satisfaction with work-life balance and counterproductive work behavior) were nonsignificant when accounting for workload in the predictive model.
Job Insecurity and the Moderating Role of Economic Dependence and Job Satisfaction: What Happens When You Really Need or Love Your Job?
Researchers have consistently found that job insecurity is related to a number of poor health and well-being outcomes. Despite this, the extent to which this relationship may be moderated by job satisfaction or financial dependence on the job has not been sufficiently investigated. Our study found support for the moderating role of economic dependence and job satisfaction in the relationship between job insecurity and life satisfaction. In addition, we also found that economic dependence moderates the relationship between job insecurity and self-rated health.
NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ)
Increasingly, there is interest in an integrated, systemic approach to worker safety, health, and well-being. NIOSH and the RAND Corporation initiated an effort to develop a conceptual framework and operationalize indicators for worker well-being. During the past three Work, Stress, and Health conferences, we have reported on the progress of this effort. This effort has created the NIOS Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ), and this poster will summarize the questionnaire, implications, and opportunities for future research.
Healthy Workplace Design for Hybrid Work Arrangements
COVID-19 has taught us a great deal about employees? basic needs and the importance of addressing these needs during and after COVID. A ?hybrid? work arrangement has emerged as the strategic choice for businesses to address employees? concerns about returning to the workplace and maintaining their autonomy regarding when and where they work. This study evaluates the degree to which workplace designs under a hybrid work arrangement promote employee health, well-being, and productivity, and offers recommendations for improvement.