Supporting Employees Affected by Cancer

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Keyword(s) Total Worker Health, Health Links, cancer, workplace accommodations

In this 1-hour self-paced course, you'll learn how to support cancer survivors returning to the workplace.

Credit Information CHES 1; SHRM PDC 1

Tag(s) Total Worker Health, CHES, SHRM PDC

Publisher Center for Health, Work & Environment

Supporting Employees Affected by Cancer Package

Description

In this 1-hour self-paced course, you'll learn how to support cancer survivors returning to the workplace.

Learning Objectives

Identify the keys to success and potential obstacles for cancer survivors’ return to work.
Understand the employer perspective for supporting cancer survivors in the workplace.
Learn about key federal and state legal protections for employers and cancer survivors.
Understand important work-place accommodations for cancer survivors’ successful return-to-work.

Lecturer

Lee Newman, MD, MA, FACOEM, FCCP, is a researcher, physician, public health practitioner, and educator. He is a distinguished professor in the Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is also the founding director of both the Center for Health, Work & Environment and the Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center. He co-founded Health Links™ and the ColoradoSPH Certificate in Total Worker Health®.

Continuing Education Credit

SHRM Credit

This course is worth 1 SHRM PDC. After completing the post-course survey, you will be given an access code you can use to apply for SHRM credit.

CHES Credit

Sponsored by The Center for Health, Work & Environment, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) to receive up to 1 total Category I contact education contact hours.

Please indicate on the post-course survey if you are claiming CHES credit and provide your CHES number. CHES certificates are issued by email every 30 days, and credit is reported to CHES quarterly based on their policies and requirements.

This course was supported by the Grant or Cooperative Agreement Number, U19OH011227, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Links, the Center for Health, Work & Environment, or the Colorado School of Public Health.