NIOSH Creates Tool to Help Assess Worker Well-Being
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has unveiled a new resource designed to measure worker well-being. The NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ) is a freely available survey instrument intended to help researchers, employers, workers, practitioners and policymakers understand workers’ well-being and target interventions to improve worker well-being.
“Worker well-being is an 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,” says 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.”
Who should use the NIOSH WellBQ?
Anyone interested in measuring the well-being of workers can use the NIOSH WellBQ. For example:
Employers, worker health and well-being professionals and decision-makers can use the NIOSH WellBQ to inform decisions to advance worker well-being in the workforce as a whole or within various worker subpopulations such as industry and occupational sectors or demographic groups.
Occupational safety and health and public health experts and policymakers can use the NIOSH WellBQ to monitor changes in worker well-being in relation to economic conditions, societal trends or changing governmental or organizational policies.
For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/niosh/twh/wellbq/default.html.
