Indicators and Measures of Health Promotion/Health Protection at the Workplace

摘要

Worksite health protection represents those efforts concerned with reducing worker health and safety risks posed by hazardous working conditions, the emphasis being on engineering control measures. Worksite health promotion is directed to the worker's personal lifestyle and seeks to alter those behaviors and habits which presents risks of disease or injury. Education and motivation are the techniques employed in this instance. The paper describes health protective and health promotion programs and practices now evident at the workplace. Actions and indicators reflecting governmental or legislative support to such efforts are described as are those depicting employer and employee actions and responsibilities. Worksite health protection and health promotion activities and the benefits that accrue from their effective integration are discussed. Initial ideas for attaining this objective are offered.