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Dr. Chris Cunningham, a Guerry Professor and UC Foundation Professor of Psychology, in his 540 McCallie Avenue Building office. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Worker safety. Health. Wellbeing.<\/p>\n

We often hear about those topics and wonder how they can be improved.<\/p>\n

But what if work hours, workload and interactions with coworkers and managers are added to the mix, blending all these topics\u2014and more\u2014to create a safer and healthier work experience?<\/p>\n

A large and growing transdisciplinary group of professionals, including Dr. Chris Cunningham, a Guerry Professor and UC Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is actively reconsidering the way work is designed and experienced.<\/p>\n

Cunningham was a steering committee member for a recently initiated professional association, the Society for Total Worker Health, which prioritizes providing all employees with a safe working environment.<\/p>\n

The society recently held its International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health<\/strong><\/a> at the National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, focusing on advancing the Total Worker Health concept and exploring opportunities to create safer and healthier workplaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of buy-in, a lot of commitment from very senior federal officials pushing this forward,\u201d Cunningham said. He noted the list of participants in the opening keynotes included the directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). One of the closing keynote speakers was U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.<\/p>\n

Participants included researchers and practitioners from allied occupational health fields, such as public health, occupational medicine, industrial hygiene and industrial-organizational (I-O) and occupational health psychology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of good opportunities to meet with some of the big stakeholders in that space,\u201d Cunningham said.<\/p>\n

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Cunningham, director of the UTC I-O Psychology graduate program, said he\u2019s been involved in reimagining total worker health for almost 20 years.<\/p>\n

I-O psychologists focus on using psychology in a work setting to help fit the right people to the right jobs, keep them safe, train them properly and ensure they\u2019re performing well, he said. At the same time, they help companies manage their employees better and improve the overall work environment and experience for workers.<\/p>\n

I-O psychologists are one component of the Total Worker Health concept.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransdisciplinary means all-inclusive, all in, and I think this conference underscored the need for that,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cYou have people that\u2014through no fault of their own because of how training programs are set up\u2014tend to have a siloed way of thinking and approaching these problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis conference was focused on trying to facilitate that transdisciplinary collaboration to get psychologists to work with public health specialists, to work with epidemiologists, to work with industrial hygienists, to work with occupational medicine specialists. Everybody who could touch that challenge of health has to be involved in solving some of these problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham said there\u2019s not a single worker health safety or wellbeing issue that can be resolved from one perspective. He cited worker safety in a manufacturing plant as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of manufacturing plants have rigid plexiglass or metal safety barriers in place, they have safety zones painted on the floor and there\u2019s probably signage saying, \u2018Wear your protective equipment,\u2019\u201d he said, \u201cbut you\u2019ll notice that people are walking around without their safety equipment, they\u2019re bending around protective areas and they\u2019re putting their hands in places that you can tell are dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the question always arises: \u2018Why aren\u2019t you following the safety protocols?\u2019 As soon as you start asking questions about how and why with respect to people\u2019s behavior, you\u2019re talking about psychology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham then asked a series of rhetorical questions. How are those workers being trained? How are they being rewarded and incentivized? What are the social norms that are shaping and guiding their behavior?<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a lot of these production facilities, people are paid by piece rate,\u201d he said, \u201cand if they\u2019re paid to produce quickly, they\u2019re going to find workarounds. Those workarounds are going to be dangerous because now they\u2019re trying to get around those safety and protective barriers that were put in place\u2014and they\u2019re just slowing them down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of a transdisciplinary approach is to say, \u2018OK, we have this challenge. What would a psychologist say in response? What would an industrial hygienist offer? How would an environmental specialist tackle this? What would an occupational medicine person bring to the table?\u2019 The idea, hope and vision is that we get a bunch of these different perspectives and areas of expertise in the same room and we can come up with real solutions for many of these thorny problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Symposium attendees were treated to three separate panel discussions that included Cunningham: the current Great Resignation phenomenon; the importance of understanding how work is organized when addressing worker health, safety and wellbeing; and the effects of the recent COVID pandemic on worker mental health.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of my colleagues\u2014including everybody I presented with at this conference\u2014belong to an R1 top research institute,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the role that I play is helping to translate that research into actual practice. I have the luxury of teaching nearly 40 master\u2019s degree holders every year\u2014and they go on to become HR directors, consultants, training managers, selection specialists, anything you think of that applies an I-O degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being in the classroom and working in the field has its advantages. For example, it enabled him to collaborate on a textbook with UTC Associate Professor Kristen Black published last year, \u201cEssentials of Occupational Health Psychology,\u201d which was recently selected as one of Doody\u2019s Core Titles in the Health Sciences for 2022.<\/p>\n

The textbook has created a lot of visibility for the UTC I-O program and has extended to additional opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, Dr. Black and I are working on an engagement with the CDC directly; we\u2019re building a training to help public health leaders avoid and prevent burnout,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cTo have that opportunity is an incredible honor and a real testament to the growing recognition that we have to get better at providing tangible guidance that managers and employees can put into practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham, who just completed a two-year term as the president of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, has been invited to speak and consult on issues pertaining to the psychology of worker health by numerous notable groups and organizations\u2014including the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the occupational health team for NASA and the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General.<\/p>\n

Moving forward, a major theme in Cunningham\u2019s work is the opportunity to rethink how work is structured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time work was seriously redesigned was probably after World War II,\u201d he said, \u201cand maybe a little bit when the personal computer entered into the equation. Aside from that, the modality of working hasn\u2019t dramatically changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the hard reset imposed upon the world by COVID-19 made people seriously question those modalities, leading people to stop and ask, \u201cWhere\u2019s the optimal environment? What is an appropriate workload? What is an appropriate work schedule? What are appropriate staffing levels?<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are supercritical questions that many industries have not figured out yet,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cWe have this opportunity now to ask, answer and address those questions, and that\u2019s what Total Worker Health is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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