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Register Now for June 28th NIOSH TWH Webinar on Nonstandard Work Arrangements and Their Impacts on Worker Safety and Health

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Join the Office for Total Worker Health for the next installment of the
NIOSH Total Worker Health® Webinar Series.

A New Look at the Way We Work:
Nonstandard Work Arrangements and Their Impacts on Worker Safety and Health

Wednesday, June 28, 2017
1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern

In this presentation of the NIOSH Total Worker Health Webinar Series, an expert panel of speakers will discuss the concept of nonstandard work arrangements. Covered topics include:
  • the NIOSH perspective on what is considered a ‘nonstandard work arrangement’;
  • health impacts of nonstandard work arrangements on worker safety and health; and
  • potential interventions and solutions consistent with a TWH approach.
Together, these three presentations provide a complimentary overview of terminology, theory, available research data, obstacles, and potential solutions for addressing the challenges associated with nonstandard work arrangements. We hope you can join us!
Featured Presenters:
Rene Pana-Cryan, PhD is the Director of the Economic Research and Support Office in the NIOSH Office of the Director, and co-manages the new Healthy Work Design and Well-being Cross-Sector Program. 

Sherry Baron, MD, MPH is an occupational physician and researcher and is a professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the City University of New York, Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment. 

Lisa Brosseau, ScD, CIH 
is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she directs the Illinois Education and Research Center and the Center for Healthy Work.
Agenda (all times in Eastern):
1:00-1:10:            Opening remarks by Dr. L. Casey Chosewood, Director of the NIOSH
                           Total Worker Health® Program
1:10-1:25:            Defining Nonstandard Work Arrangements from a NIOSH Perspective
1:25-1:50:            Current Issues with Nonstandard Work Arrangements and the
                            Social-Ecological Model as a Solution for Designing
                            and Delivering Interventions
1:50-2:10:            Community-Based Interventions for Nonstandard Work
                            Arrangements in Chicago
2:10-2:25             Guided discussion and audience Q&A
2:25-2:30             Wrap-up, closing remarks

Target audiences: • Industrial hygienists and occupational safety and health professionals • Employers, risk management, and human resources professionals • Health education professionals • Doctors and other medical and nursing professionals


Free continuing education opportunities are being made available, including CME, CNE, CEU, and CECH. For more information please visit https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/TWH/webinar.html or email twh@cdc.gov.

Please share this with your professional networks as appropriate. Thank you in advance for your support in efforts to enhance the safety, health, and well-being of our nation’s workforce!

This webinar series is produced by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Office for Total Worker Health to educate and inform members of the public health community as well as interested members of the general public of program-related research and recommendations. NIOSH is the federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths. For more information on the NIOSH Total Worker Health program, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/TWH/. For more information about NIOSH, visit http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/.

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