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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has released a free Worker Well-Being Questionnaire to help employers, workers, researchers, practitioners and policymakers better understand and target interventions to improve workers’ welfare.
The questionnaire measures well-being at the company, industry and workforce levels and looks at factors ranging from workplace culture to safety climate.
In addition to individual firms employing it within their own ranks, occupational safety professionals, public health experts and policymakers can use the questionnaire to monitor changes in worker well-being in relation to economic conditions, societal trends or changing governmental or organizational policies. Researchers and organizational consultants can also use it to assess the state of a working population before, during and after an intervention.
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Employers and health professionals are encouraged to distribute the survey.
By Shereen Hashem
Apr 13, 2021
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announces a new resource designed to measure workers’ well-being. The Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ) is a free survey to help researches, employers, workers and many more to understand well-being and potentially create interventions.
“Worker well-being is a unifying concept that characterizes quality of life with respect to a person’s working conditions, circumstances outside of work, and physical and mental health status,” said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D. “NIOSH is excited to offer this new tool that anyone can use to evaluate worker well-being in order to help identify opportunities to advance worker well-being through workplace policies, programs, and practices.”