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The IH professionals have long controlled physical hazards and exposures in the workplace, such as noise, chemicals, and dust. Wheras, reducing social or psychosocial factors have often been overlooked. A 2018 study found that 40% of an individual’s health is determinant of social factors. While those factors weren’t important to the workplace historically, they are […]

Notable researcher Jack Dennerlein, PhD, of Harvard University, believes that workers and their health and safety behaviors are a response to the work environment, whether it be organizational or environmental factors. One hundred forty-five million Americans work, and most spend at least 50 percent of their active time at the workplace. Despite improvements in occupational safety […]