title: Safety, health, and well-being of municipal utility and construction workers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide a baseline description of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports along with safety, injury, health, and well-being indicators in a sample of utility and construction workers for a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded Total Worker Health™ intervention study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Survey responses and health assessments were collected from a total of 349 employees in two municipal utility departments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants demonstrated poor weight control and body mass index and provided reports of frequent poor health habits, injury, and pain. Although safety climate was good, less desirable levels of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports were observed. These stressors and supports were found to relate with many of the health, injury, and pain indicators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results demonstrate the need for workplace interventions to promote and protect construction worker health and the importance of the psychosocial work environment.
authors.affiliation: From Portland State University, Ore.
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bodner
authors.forename: Mariah
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kraner
authors.forename: Brittany
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bradford
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hammer
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Truxillo
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000328:Adult; D060389:Construction Industry; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D009111:Local Government; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009314:National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S.; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*