Overview of the CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program for Total Worker Health TM

1. A NIOSH Center for Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce Overview of the CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program for Total Worker HealthTM www.uml.edu/cphnewtoolkit

2. Why we need a safety/wellness program for employees • Annually, employees report nearly 4 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses. • Nearly 50% of Americans have one chronic health condition, and almost 1/2 of this group have more than 1 condition. • By 2020, 1 in 4 American workers will be 55 years of age or older. • 44% of Americans reported work as always or often stressful in 2010. NIOSH Top Reasons to Create a New Pathway for a Safer and Healthier Workforce, 2014

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4. Employer Costs • Healthcare (Direct Costs) • Medical claims • Pharmaceutical Visible Costs • Lost Productivity (Indirect Costs) • Presenteeism • Short Term Disability • Long Term Disability • Absenteeism • Workers Compensation Non-Visible Costs Indirect costs represent 2-3 times direct medical costs.

5. What is an integrated approach to total worker health? Wellness Safety Coordinated planning All levels participate Workers Management

6. Why focus on modifying behaviors and the work environment? Health promotion and work organization link directly to health behavior and health outcomes. • Health Outcomes • Cardiovascular • Mental Health • Musculoskeletal Working Conditions Work Organization Physical hazards and exposures Mental and Social exposures Encourages Encourages Health Behavior

9. Why a participatory workplace process? • …to change behaviors • …to change conditions • …to make decisions • …to support co-workers • …to sustain the program • …to discoverroot causes of physical, social, mental stress • …to discover root causes of unhealthy behaviors • …to contextualize solutions Employee health self-confidence Knowledge from employees’ experience

10. CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program: CORE ELEMENTS • Two committees – manager, non-manager • Engages all levels of the workforce • Trained facilitator – subject knowledge • Guides, coordinates committees • IDEAS intervention planning process • Builds solutions one intervention at a time

11. Roles of Steering Committee (SC) & Design Team (DT) Steering Committee • Allocates and coordinates resources • Considers interventions • Makes strategic decisions • Promotes the work Action, feedback & teamwork Action, Feedback & teamwork Design Team • Selects health and safety issues • Designs interventions • Develops business case • Proposes solutions

12. Integrate HWPP into your existing health and safety efforts • Better communication and understanding between management and workers • New ideas and ways to solve problems and work together

13. GAINS FOR ORGANIZATION Health status Healthcare costs Morale Productivity -Absence -Disability -Workers compensation -Presenteeism Recruitment/retention Company visibility Social responsibility HEALTHIER PERSON MORE PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEE LIFESTYLE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES COMPANY CULTURE Senior leadership Operations leadership Staff leadership Reward positive actions Quality assurance HEALTHY WORKSITE PROGRAMS Adapted from Dee W. Edington, PhD, Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy. Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan. c. 2009.

14. Potential Benefits to the Organization • Safer, healthier, and more productive employees • Increase morale and job satisfaction • Increase in worker autonomy • Improved health decisions • Decrease in injuries and accidents • Decrease in work-related stress • Reduction in chronic disease burden

15. Let’s get started! We have the tool for you to use together with your employees. Learn more at: www.uml.edu/cphnew