Renowned faculty from the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Health, Work & Environment developed a Total Worker Health® Leadership 101 course to help you you assess your current leadership strategy and build a framework for evaluating Total Worker Health® in your organization. This 1-hour training can be taken online at your own pace.
Target Audience
This course is intended for individuals interested in learning how to become leaders in their organization who can drive organizational change to achieve Total Worker Health® (TWH), including business owners, executives, and senior managers, benefits and HR professionals, occupational health and safety, and public health.
Learning Objectives
Learners will be able to identify the following:
- The five practices of TWH leadership and your role in defining organizational culture
- The business case for TWH
- What makes for a healthy and safe workplace
- The employee perspective of a healthy and safe business
- Ways to enhance your personal well-being
Lecturers
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®.
Natalie Schwatka, PhD is an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health and the co-director of the Certificate in Total Worker Health® program at the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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.
CIH & CSP
After completing the post-course survey, a certificate will automatically be issued which you may then present to the credentialing agencies for credit.
This training was developed with funding from Pinnacol Assurance as well as a Total Worker Health Center of Excellence Cooperative Agreement U19OH011227, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of Pinnacol Assurance or the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the Department of Health and Human Services.