NIOSH has issued a call for abstracts for its First International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health, which is slated to run Oct. 6-8, 2014, in Bethesda, MD. Abstract submission deadline is March 24, 2014.
According to the agency, the symposium will explore research, practices, programs and policies that advance the overall safety, health and well-being of workers through integrating occupational safety and health protection with health promotion, to prevent worker injury and illness and to advance health and well-being.
The event will seek to advance the tenets of NIOSH's Total Worker Health Program. This approach recognizes that work-related factors, as well as those beyond the workplace, jointly contribute to the various safety and health challenges facing workers. The NIOSH Total Worker Health strategy champions interventions that address all of those factors comprehensively, in a harmonized way, and supports the idea that coordinating and combining programs that address these factors can achieve greater effectiveness.
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