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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Workplace

Goal: Promote the health and safety of people at work.

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Although workplace safety has improved in recent decades, many people still get injured or die on the job. Healthy People 2030 focuses on preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths by making workplaces safer. 

Because people spend so much time working, their work environment has a major impact on their health. Many people develop hearing loss, skin diseases, or lung problems from exposure at work. Others are at risk of falling or being assaulted while working.  

Interventions tailored to certain industries — like efforts to prevent falls in the construction industry — can help reduce work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Employers can also help improve people’s health and well-being by banning smoking in the workplace and offering employee health promotion programs. 

Objective Status

  • 2 Target met or exceeded
  • 3 Improving
  • 2 Little or no detectable change
  • 1 Getting worse
  • 0 Baseline only
  • 5 Developmental
  • 1 Research

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Related Objectives

The following is a sample of objectives related to this topic. Some objectives may include population data.

Workplace — General

Increase the proportion of worksites that offer an employee physical activity program — ECBP‑D04
Developmental
Increase the proportion of worksites that offer an employee nutrition program — ECBP‑D05
Developmental
Reduce pneumoconiosis deaths — OSH‑04
Improving

Injury Prevention

Reduce work-related injuries resulting in missed work days — OSH‑02
Improving
Reduce deaths from work-related injuries — OSH‑01
Getting worse

Sensory or Communication Disorders

Reduce new cases of work-related hearing loss — OSH‑06
Target met or exceeded
Understand factors that impact use of protective eyewear in occupational and recreational settings — V‑R02
Research

Tobacco Use

Increase the number of states, territories, and DC that prohibit smoking in worksites, restaurants, and bars — TU‑17
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of worksites with policies that ban indoor smoking — ECBP‑D06
Developmental

Transportation

Increase trips to work made by mass transit — EH‑02
Little or no detectable change

Workforce

Reduce work-related skin diseases — OSH‑03
Improving
Increase the proportion of worksites that offer an employee health promotion program — ECBP‑D03
Developmental
Reduce the rate of high blood lead levels in adults exposed at work — OSH‑D01
Developmental

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References

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U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2019). Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea01.htm