title: Integrating health and safety in the workplace: how closely aligning health and safety strategies can yield measurable benefits.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To better understand how integrating health and safety strategies in the workplace has evolved and establish a replicable, scalable framework for advancing the concept with a system of health and safety metrics, modeled after the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seven leading national and international programs aimed at creating a culture of health and safety in the workplace were compared and contrasted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A list of forty variables was selected, making it clear there is a wide variety of approaches to integration of health and safety in the workplace.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Depending on how well developed the culture of health and safety is within a company, there are unique routes to operationalize and institutionalize the integration of health and safety strategies to achieve measurable benefits to enhance the overall health and well-being of workers, their families, and the community.
authors.affiliation: From Chief Health Officer (Dr Baase), The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI; Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health (Dr Bunn), Hilton Head, SC; Chief Medical Officer (Dr Burton), American Express, Chicago; Executive Director (Mr Eisenberg), American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Elk Grove Village, IL; VP Denver Risk Control Manager, Risk Control and Claim Advocacy Practice (Ms Ennis), Willis Group, Wheat Ridge, CO; Co-founder & President (Dr Fabius), HealthNEXT, Newtown Square, PA; Director, Environmental Health & Safety (Mr Hawkins), Time Warner Cable, Inc., Charlotte, NC; Global Director - Workplace Health and Safety (Mr Hohn), Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.; Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health (Dr Hudson), UCLA Health System and Campus, Los Angeles; Chief Medical Officer (Dr Hymel), Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Anaheim, CA; Director Corporate Relations (Ms Konicki), ACOEM, Chicago; Paul Larson Communications (Mr Larson), Evanston, IL; Vice-Chairman (Dr Loeppke), US Preventive Medicine, Inc., Brentwood, TN; Associate Professor (Dr McLellan), Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH; Principal Scientist/Director Center for Occupational & Environmental Health (Dr Roberts), Exponent, Chicago, IL; Process Improvement Leader (Mr Usrey), Predictive Solutions, Oakdale, PA; Risk Control Director - Nashville & New Orleans (Mr Wallace), CNA Insurance, Old Hickory, TN; Director of Medical Strategies (Dr Yarborough), Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD; and Health Educator (Ms Siuba), Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, SC.
authors.forename: Ronald R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Loeppke
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hohn
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baase
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Bunn
authors.forename: Wayne N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Burton
authors.forename: Barry S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.forename: Trish
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ennis
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fabius
authors.forename: R Jack
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.forename: T Warner
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: Pamela A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hymel
authors.forename: Doris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Konicki
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: McLellan
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Cary
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Usrey
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: Charles M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Yarborough
authors.forename: Justina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siuba
mesh_terms: D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000592:standards*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration