Measuring Best Practices for Workplace Safety, Health, and Well-Being: The Workplace Integrated Safety and Health Assessment

Overview

Journal J Occup Environ Med

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2018 Feb 2

PMID 29389812

Citations 39

Authors

Glorian Sorensen

Emily Sparer

Jessica A R Williams

Daniel Gundersen

Leslie I Boden

Jack T Dennerlein

Dean Hashimoto

Jeffrey N Katz

Deborah L McLellan

Cassandra A Okechukwu

Nicolaas P Pronk

Anna Revette

Gregory R Wagner

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Abstract

Objective: To present a measure of effective workplace organizational policies, programs, and practices that focuses on working conditions and organizational facilitators of worker safety, health and well-being: the workplace integrated safety and health (WISH) assessment.

Methods: Development of this assessment used an iterative process involving a modified Delphi method, extensive literature reviews, and systematic cognitive testing.

Results: The assessment measures six core constructs identified as central to best practices for protecting and promoting worker safety, health and well-being: leadership commitment; participation; policies, programs, and practices that foster supportive working conditions; comprehensive and collaborative strategies; adherence to federal and state regulations and ethical norms; and data-driven change.

Conclusions: The WISH Assessment holds promise as a tool that may inform organizational priority setting and guide research around causal pathways influencing implementation and outcomes related to these approaches.

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