![]() ![]() Keynote 1: Expanding our focus: from what, to what? Most recently, a detailed look at the changing world of work was published in November 2022: " Expanding the Focus of Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from a Series of Linked Scientific Meetings". Read more on the Expanded Focus for OSH, and two preparatory workshops ( 1, 2) held in 2020 that informed the agenda of this conference. Our conference will bring together an international, interprofessional audience of employers, workers, health and safety professionals, researchers, policymakers, and academic community to address the need for an expanded focus for OSH. This paradigm shift will also change how we conduct OSH research, train the future OSH workforce, and design forward-thinking policies to maximize worker health and well-being. ![]() However, focusing on worker well-being as an outcome requires a paradigm shift beyond the prevention of workplace injury and illness or health promotion, involving collaborative organizational leadership, proactive company policies, accountability, training, better engagement of management and employees, following benchmarks over time and identifying opportunities for early corrective or enhancing interventions.Įmbracing this paradigm shift requires a more expansive, systems-thinking approach to better integrate traditional OSH, personal and socioeconomic risk factors, both horizontally (broadening the range of factors to examine their impact on health) and vertically (from a short-term perspective to a work life continuum perspective). Worker well-being is being operationalized by NIOSH through its Total Worker Health® (TWH) initiative. Together with individual health, lifestyle, economic and social factors, these changes can affect both worker well-being and business productivity. ![]() The world of work is undergoing major changes in the nature of work and employment arrangements, in workforce demographics, and in the types of workplaces. ![]()
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