Overview of the CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace

Participatory Program for Total Worker HealthTM

A NIOSH Center for Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce

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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 2

Insert your organization’s data here

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Employer Costs

Lost Productivity (Indirect Costs)•Presenteeism•Short Term Disability•Long Term Disability•Absenteeism•Workers Compensation

Non-Visible

Costs

VisibleCosts

Indirect costs represent 2-3 times direct medical costs.costs.Indirect costs represent 2-3 times direct medical costs.costs.

Healthcare (Direct Costs)•Medical claims•Pharmaceutical

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What is an integrated approach to total worker health?

Wellness Safety

ManagementWorkers

Coordinated planning

All levels participate

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Why focus on modifying behaviors and the work environment?

Health promotion and work organization link directly to health behavior and health outcomes.

Health

Behavior

Health Outcomes

•Cardiovascular•Mental Health•Musculoskeletal

Encourages Encourages

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Why a participatory workplace process?

Employee health self-confidence

Knowledge from employees’ experience

…to change behaviors

…to change conditions

…to make decisions

…to support co-workers

…to sustain the program

…to discover root causes of physical, social, mental stress

…to discover root causes of unhealthy behaviors

…to contextualize solutions

•Two committees – manager, non-managerEngages all levels of the workforce

•Trained facilitator – subject knowledgeGuides, coordinates committees

•IDEAS intervention planning processBuilds solutions one intervention at a time

CPH-NEW Healthy WorkplaceParticipatory Program:

CORE ELEMENTS

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Design Team

Steering Committee

Roles of Steering Committee (SC) & Design Team (DT)

Action, Feedback & teamwork

Action, feedback & teamwork

• Allocates and coordinates resources • Considers interventions

• Makes strategic decisions• Promotes the work

• Selects health and safety issues • Designs interventions

• Develops business case • Proposes solutions

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Better communication and understanding between management and workers

New ideas and ways to solve problems and work together

Integrate HWPP into your existing health and safety efforts

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Adapted from Dee W. Edington, PhD, Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy. Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan. c. 2009.

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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 14

Let’s get started!

We have the tool for you to use together with your employees.

Learn more at:www.uml.edu/cphnew

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