BDMS Occupational Health


ACOEM OEM COMPETENCY: HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY

A physician will be able to identify and address individual and organizational factors in the workplace in order to optimize the health of the worker and enhance productivity. These issues most often include absenteeism, presenteeism, health enhancement, and population health management.

  1. Design, implement and evaluate worksite health-promotion and disease-prevention programs, incorporating DHHS and other authoritative guidelines as appropriate.
  1. Describe the appropriate use and limitations of health risk assessment and screening for well populations and the applications of screening, assessment, and early intervention for targeted high-risk groups.
  2. Counsel employees about health risks and lifestyle.
  3. Communicate current medical, environmental, and/or other scientific knowledge effectively to target groups, including patients, employees, employers, unions, community groups, and the media.
  4. Recognize the effects of cultural, ethnic, and social factors, including health beliefs and practices, on the health and safety of workers.
  5. Accommodate cultural, ethnic, educational, and language variations among workers when providing information on occupational hazard prevention, disease prevention, and health promotion.

Welcome to the Health & Productivity Management Course.

This course is designed to acquaint you with the basic principles of health and productivity management, an essential competency for modern occupational health practitioners. Health and productivity management is a specific application of population health management to employed populations, their dependents and their communities. It represents an integration of traditional occupational safety and health activities (health protection) with wellness (health promotion) to optimize employee health and performance, minimize the direct and indirect impact of injury, disease and disability, and create shared value for employers, employees and their communities.

The sections (lessons) are designed to be completed in order. Completion of each section is required to move on to the next section.

The course includes a series of slide presentations, key articles from the occupational health literature, quizzes, and discussion forums. The forums are designed to ask questions, provoke discussion, and encourage collaboration. Vigorous participation in the forums will benefit all participants!

Completion of all sections, participation in the forums, and a passing score of 80% on the final assessment will result in a Certificate of Completion for the HPM Module.

Welcome aboard!

Reading Materials

HPM 1: What is Health and Productivity Management

HPM 2: Measuring Health & Productivity

HPM 3: Impact of HPM on the Workplace

HPM 4: Emerging Trends in HPM