The 3rd International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health® begins Tuesday October 11 through Friday October 14, 2022. HWC co-directors Marnie Dobson and Peter Schnall are making a virtual presentation from the Healthy Work Campaign on Wednesday, Oct 12 at 2pm...
“…Dr. John Froines was also an environmental and occupational health scientist, deeply committed to improving the health and safety of working people. Our HWC Director, Dr. Peter Schnall, and our Labor Outreach Strategist, David Le Grande, both knew and worked with Dr. Froines. We interviewed them and found out that John was also a great supporter of healthy work organization.”
As we celebrated mothers this Mother’s Day, we realize how important healthy work is to working mothers (the majority of mothers worldwide). When we think about healthy work, we must also think about gender equity, and other inequalities in the labor market including...
During an historic storm of tornadoes that hit the Midwest U.S. this weekend, multiple workers lost their lives needlessly when a candle factory in Kentucky and an Amazon warehouse in Illinois were destroyed by the tornadoes. Investigations are underway over reports...
Since the pandemic, worker health and safety has taken center stage. Millions of American workers continue to go to workplaces and may become exposed to the often deadly coronavirus. Workers, their unions and worker health & safety advocates, however, have fought...
This week the Healthy Work Campaign is proud to announce that the online Healthy Work Survey (HWS) for organizations, including special content for Employers and for Unions/Worker Advocates, is now available at our website, www.healthywork.org. The HWS project has...
By David LeGrande, Healthy Work Campaign - Labor Outreach Coordinator-Strategist In 2020, the Oakland, California teachers' union successfully negotiated rigorous COVID-19 protections in 100 schools throughout the City of Oakland. Their success, the product of an...
The Healthy Work Campaign published a new Medium article recently, "Remote Work or Return to the Office? It depends." exploring the enormous transition that many workers made to "remote work" during the pandemic. Up until June there appeared to be some movement from...
Heat-related injuries and fatalities are again a major concern for public health, as extreme temperatures have made an early appearance especially in the western and southern regions of the United States. According to the CDC Heat and Health Tracker in an average...
Members of the HWC team published a new article on Medium today, "Work Stress in the Age of COVID." The article - based on a recent editorial published by our team, Pouran Faghri, Marnie Dobson, Paul Landsbergis, and Peter Schnall, in the Journal of Occupational and...
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