Abstract
Since its founding in 2006, the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) has conducted evidence-based field research to determine how organizations can establish sustainable programs for planning and implementing integrated health promotion and health protection interventions with high levels of employee engagement. Salutogenic strengths of CPH-NEW’s recommended programmatic approach are highlighted in this chapter, including how a small group of front-line employees work as a team to identify and prioritize health/safety issues/concerns, use participatory ergonomics to design and plan workplace interventions, and collaborate with management during intervention implementation and evaluation. A structured toolkit-based approach for designing workplace interventions is described in some detail to show how salutogenic principles and approaches can be systematically incorporated during intervention planning as part of a continuous salutogenic change process for healthy organizations. Research challenges associated with evaluating program effectiveness and sustainability are also discussed.
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Acknowledgements
Dr. Michelle Robertson, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety and CPH-NEW Research Affiliate. Co-Principal Investigator R2P Toolkit Project.
Dr. Nicholas Warren, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut. Co-Principal Investigator R2P Toolkit Project.
Suzanne Nobrega, M.S., Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Program Director R2P Toolkit Project.
Dr. Georg Bauer, Division of Public and Organizational Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, and CPH-NEW Research Affiliate. Project consultant R2P Toolkit Project.
Elizabeth Erck, M.S., Mari Ryan, MBA, MHP, and Zandra Zweber, MA. Program facilitators R2P Toolkit Project.
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This publication was supported by Grant Number 1 U19 OH008857 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIOSH.
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Henning, R.A., Reeves, D.W., CPH-NEW Research Team. (2013). An Integrated Health Protection/Promotion Program Supporting Participatory Ergonomics and Salutogenic Approaches in the Design of Workplace Interventions. In: Bauer, G., Jenny, G. (eds) Salutogenic organizations and change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6470-5_17
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