Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Advance Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being

Streit, Jessica M. K.; Felknor, Sarah A.; Edwards, Nicole; Howard, John

doi:10.3390/ijerph18168477

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“…Various authors have addressed the need for the OSH field to expand its focus to address issues that will arise and extend into the future [ 6 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 19 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 31 , 86 , 89 , 90 , 220 ]. Crossing many of these analyses are issues of transdisciplinarity and systems thinking [ 216 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 223 ]. The perspective on decent work must incorporate or expand systems thinking, strategic foresight, health equity, and transdisciplinary concepts in the OSH field [ 4 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 223 , 224 , 225 ].…”

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“…Crossing many of these analyses are issues of transdisciplinarity and systems thinking [ 216 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 223 ]. The perspective on decent work must incorporate or expand systems thinking, strategic foresight, health equity, and transdisciplinary concepts in the OSH field [ 4 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 223 , 224 , 225 ]. In summary, the field must evolve forward to a more comprehensive, public health-oriented model of worker health [ 4 , 9 , 223 , 225 ].…”

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Occupational Safety and Health Staging Framework for Decent Work

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The 2030 United Nations Goal 8 for sustainable development focuses on decent work. There is utility in identifying the occupational safety and health aspects of Goal 8, as they pertain to the four pillars of decent work: job creation, social protection, rights of workers, and social dialogue. A workgroup of the International Commission on Occupational Health and collaborators addressed the issue of decent work and occupational safety and health (OSH) with the objective of elaborating a framework for guidance for practitioners, researchers, employers, workers, and authorities. This article presents that framework, which is based on an examination of the literature and the perspectives of the workgroup. The framework encompasses the intersection of the pillars of decent (employment creation, social protection, rights of workers, and social dialogue) work with new and emerging hazards and risks related to various selected determinants: new technologies and new forms of work; demographics (aging and gender); globalization; informal work; migration; pandemics; and OSH policies and climate change. The OSH field will need an expanded focus to address the future of decent work. This focus should incorporate the needs of workers and workforces in terms of their well-being. The framework identifies a starting point for the OSH community to begin to promote decent work.

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Occupational Safety and Health Staging Framework for Decent Work

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“…Another approach is to incorporate this new thinking into existing courses through individual or group projects and exercises that address Total Worker Health issues and global worker well-being [ 77 ]. Key content areas that might be addressed in these training activities are shown in Table 3 [ 151 , 152 ].…”

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Expanding the Focus of Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from a Series of Linked Scientific Meetings

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There is widespread recognition that the world of work is changing, and agreement is growing that the occupational safety and health (OSH) field must change to contribute to the protection of workers now and in the future. Discourse on the evolution of OSH has been active for many decades, but formalized support of an expanded focus for OSH has greatly increased over the past 20 years. Development of approaches such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)’s Total Worker Health® concept and the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Healthy Workplace Framework are concrete examples of how OSH can incorporate a new focus with a wider view. In 2019, NIOSH initiated a multi-year effort to explore an expanded focus for OSH. This paper is a report on the outputs of a three-year cooperative agreement between NIOSH and The University of Texas School of Public Health, which led to subject matter expert workshops in 2020 and an international conference of global interest groups in 2021. This article traces the background of these meetings and identifies and assesses the lessons learned. It also reviews ten thematic topics that emerged from the meetings: worker health inequalities; training new OSH professionals; future OSH research and practice; tools to measure well-being of workers; psychosocial hazards and adverse mental health effects; skilling, upskilling and improving job quality; socioeconomic influences; climate change; COVID-19 pandemic influences; and strategic foresight. Cross-cutting these themes is the need for systems and transdisciplinary thinking and operationalization of the concept of well-being to prepare the OSH field for the work of the future.

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“…Streit et al [36] demonstrate the need to employ innovative methods and approaches to monitor and prepare for the emergence of safety and health issues and trends. The authors review strategic foresight-a promising methodological tool that can enhance OSH capacity to anticipate, and perhaps even shape, the future of work-and present a working foresight framework tailored for OSH, with recommendations for research and practice.…”

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