Ronald R Loeppke1, Todd Hohn, Catherine Baase, William B Bunn, Wayne N Burton, Barry S Eisenberg, Trish Ennis, Raymond Fabius, R Jack Hawkins, T Warner Hudson, Pamela A Hymel, Doris Konicki, Paul Larson, Robert K McLellan, Mark A Roberts, Cary Usrey, Joseph A Wallace, Charles M Yarborough, Justina Siuba. 1. From Chief Health Officer (Dr Baase), The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI; Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health (Dr Bunn), Hilton Head, SC; Chief Medical Officer (Dr Burton), American Express, Chicago; Executive Director (Mr Eisenberg), American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Elk Grove Village, IL; VP Denver Risk Control Manager, Risk Control and Claim Advocacy Practice (Ms Ennis), Willis Group, Wheat Ridge, CO; Co-founder & President (Dr Fabius), HealthNEXT, Newtown Square, PA; Director, Environmental Health & Safety (Mr Hawkins), Time Warner Cable, Inc., Charlotte, NC; Global Director - Workplace Health and Safety (Mr Hohn), Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.; Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health (Dr Hudson), UCLA Health System and Campus, Los Angeles; Chief Medical Officer (Dr Hymel), Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Anaheim, CA; Director Corporate Relations (Ms Konicki), ACOEM, Chicago; Paul Larson Communications (Mr Larson), Evanston, IL; Vice-Chairman (Dr Loeppke), US Preventive Medicine, Inc., Brentwood, TN; Associate Professor (Dr McLellan), Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH; Principal Scientist/Director Center for Occupational & Environmental Health (Dr Roberts), Exponent, Chicago, IL; Process Improvement Leader (Mr Usrey), Predictive Solutions, Oakdale, PA; Risk Control Director - Nashville & New Orleans (Mr Wallace), CNA Insurance, Old Hickory, TN; Director of Medical Strategies (Dr Yarborough), Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD; and Health Educator (Ms Siuba), Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, SC.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To better understand how integrating health and safety strategies in the workplace has evolved and establish a replicable, scalable framework for advancing the concept with a system of health and safety metrics, modeled after the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. METHODS: Seven leading national and international programs aimed at creating a culture of health and safety in the workplace were compared and contrasted. RESULTS: A list of forty variables was selected, making it clear there is a wide variety of approaches to integration of health and safety in the workplace. CONCLUSION: Depending on how well developed the culture of health and safety is within a company, there are unique routes to operationalize and institutionalize the integration of health and safety strategies to achieve measurable benefits to enhance the overall health and well-being of workers, their families, and the community.
OBJECTIVE: To better understand how integrating health and safety strategies in the workplace has evolved and establish a replicable, scalable framework for advancing the concept with a system of health and safety metrics, modeled after the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. METHODS: Seven leading national and international programs aimed at creating a culture of health and safety in the workplace were compared and contrasted. RESULTS: A list of forty variables was selected, making it clear there is a wide variety of approaches to integration of health and safety in the workplace. CONCLUSION: Depending on how well developed the culture of health and safety is within a company, there are unique routes to operationalize and institutionalize the integration of health and safety strategies to achieve measurable benefits to enhance the overall health and well-being of workers, their families, and the community.
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