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, according to www.constructiondive.com.
The questionnaire measures well-being at company, industry and workforce levels and examines factors ranging from workplace culture to safety climate.
The questionnaire is being released as many contractors are preparing to bring back to work employees who were remote during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is guided by a framework that identifies five domains of worker well-being: work evaluation and experience; workplace policies and culture; workplace physical environment and safety climate; health status; and home, community and society.
“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 John Howard, director of NIOSH, in a statement. “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.”
