Social Sustainability
Total Worker Health
The NIOSH framework integrating workplace hazard protection with the promotion of workers' overall health and wellbeing.
Definition
Total Worker Health is an approach developed by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, 2011) integrating protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury- and illness-prevention efforts to advance worker wellbeing — on and off the job. It recognises that work itself is a social determinant of health: schedule, pay, security, autonomy and supervision shape health as much as exposure to physical hazards, so employer programmes address working conditions and wellbeing together.
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