Community of Practice and Support

Home care workers often lack access to training, ergonomic tools, and peer support, which puts them at greater risk of injuries and mental and physical illness. This evidence-based toolkit is geared toward creating a supportive community of professionals to help produce changes in safety and health outcomes. Home care workers, who typically work in isolated settings, have elevated injuries and health problems. The Community of Practice and Support (COMPASS) toolkit utilizes a peer-led social support group format designed to improve social well-being, reduce the risk of injuries, and promote health among home care workers. Home care workers learn together, set goals, and get support for making changes to advance safety, health and well-being. 

Active Workplace toolkit

The Active Workplace toolkit is a program to help reduce sitting time at work and to provide training to help managers and supervisors better support workplace safety, health, and well-being for their employees. By reducing sedentary time and prolonged sitting at work, we can help improve worker health, safety, and well-being, reduce musculoskeletal pain, and reduce lost work time due to injury or illness.

Toolbox Talks

The Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) team has created Toolbox Talks, which highlight a particular safety issue and provide guidance on how to address the safety issue to prevent injuries and fatalities in the future. The toolbox talks are used to foster a group discussion that focuses on the safety issue at hand and can be used during safety meetings and/or at the start of a shift. Toolbox talks are available in English and Spanish and cover industries including construction, transportation, logging and forestry, and more.

Health Impacts Safety meeting guides

Health Impacts Safety are Total Worker Health^® meeting guides on safety and health hazards. These guides are available to download for free. Each scripted guide takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Guides are intended to be used in a small to medium group setting, such as a safety or health committee meeting, toolbox meeting, or other team meetings. Use in conjunction with OR-FACE Toolbox Talks for an integrated safety, health, and well-being approach.

Hazard alerts

The Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) team conducts surveillance, investigation, and assessment of traumatic occupational fatalities in Oregon, and produces safety materials to promote worker safety. They have created hazard alerts that highlight safety measures and provide guidance on how to address the hazard to prevent injuries or fatalities from a particular hazard. The hazard alerts use several similar case abstracts to draw attention to repeating fatal hazards. 

Recursos en Español

El equipo de Evaluación y Control de Fatalidades de Oregon (OR-FACE) ha traducido algunas publicaciones al español. Estas publicaciones incluyen los Informes de Investigación, Charlas de Herramientas y Alertas de Peligro de OR-FACE. Obtenga más información sobre cada una de estas publicaciones a continuación.