05/29/2024: Creating New Work Spaces Using a Total Worker Health (TWH) Approach

Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

9 - 10 AM HST | 12 - 1 PM PT | 2 - 3 PM CT | 3 - 4 PM ET

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About the webinar:

Work spaces are created everyday across the nation, either by remodel or new build. Typically, the design and construction of work spaces are conceptualized and executed almost exclusively by architect and construction firms, with little input from the future occupants (e.g., workers). This doesn’t have to be the scenario occupants are faced with when architects and designers collaborate with TWH professionals on work space design. This presentation describes a new building project where health and well-being considerations were introduced at the very beginning and throughout the design planning process and occupants (academic faculty and staff) participated fully through the entire planning phase.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

  • Identify major aspects of TWH that are related to work space design

  • Incorporate TWH principles into work space design and layout to avoid negative health and well-being consequences

  • Identify how TWH aspects can be incorporated into work space design and layout to promote occupant health and well-being
  • Apply work analysis to learn how occupant needs can be translated into work space design requirements

Speaker: Cristina Banks, PhD

Dr. Banks is Director of the Outreach Core for the California Labor Laboratory, a NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence at UCSF. She is also Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at UC Berkeley. For both entities, Dr. Banks leads the translation and dissemination of research into practice for the CA Labor Lab and collaboration with 20+ researchers and affiliates across multiple disciplines, integrating known sciences and practices underlying healthy workplaces.

ACCREDITATION

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 Contact Hour. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Certificates of Completion

Certificates of Completion will be available to webinar participants who are present for the complete, live webinar, and logged in with their registered email address. Call-in attendees are not eligible for certificates at this time - Please download the Zoom app to log in via email on your smartphone whenever possible.

In order to receive your Certificate of Completion, qualified learners must complete the post-webinar evaluation within 7 days of the webinar. A link to the evaluation will be emailed to qualified learners 24 hours after the webinar via no-reply@zoom.us. Qualified learners who submit their evaluation will receive a Certificate of Completion via email, and can also print/save the certificate from their browser after submitting their evaluation.

If you're not able to attend the live presentation, no problem! We record most presentations and will host them on our website provided we have permission to do so. Presentation recordings are not eligible for Certificates of Completion.

ACCESSIBILITY:

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Michelle Meyer at (510) 642-8365 or mmeyer@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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ABOUT The California Labor Lab

The California Labor Lab is a collaboration among investigators at UCSF, UC Berkeley, and the California Department of Public Health. The Lab is housed at the Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Our mission is to extend the pursuit of health and safety for workers in traditional employment to those in a wide range of alternative arrangements in partnership with affected communities.

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