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2023 Work, Stress and Health Conference: Interdisciplinary Scoping Review of Literature Relating to Worker Health, Safety, and Well-Being

Cristina Banks, PhD
Alicia LaFrance, MPH, MSW
Ima Varghese Mac, BA
Patricia Iley, BA
Ed Yelin, PhD
2023
The Outreach Core of the California Labor Laboratory (CALL) undertook a scoping review of health, safety, and well-being-related literatures. This scoping review was conducted with the intent of establishing a more extensive Total Worker Health® (TWH) knowledge base from which researchers and practitioners could extend their efforts toward greater integration of TWH principles through a more robust platform of collaboration with their interdisciplinary partners. Hypothesis: Awareness and greater appreciation of the roles other disciplines can play in the development of integrated and holistic...

2024 COEH Building Bridges Conference: Traditional and Alternative Employment in Contemporary Work

Cristina Banks, PhD
Ed Yelin, PhD
2023
Topic: Traditional and Alternative Employment in Contemporary Work:
Who Takes Responsibility for Workers’ Well-being?

This presentation by Cristina Banks and Edward Yelin from the California Labor Lab examines the evolving landscape of employment and its implications for worker well-being. The authors focus on the shift from traditional to alternative employment arrangements and the resulting diffusion of responsibility for workers' welfare.

Key points:

An overview of NIOSH's Total Worker Health® (TWH) approach, which integrates health protection and promotion to advance...

2022 EDRA Conference: Partnership Models Between Academia and Industry

Cristina Banks, PhD
2022
2022 EDRA Conference “Research in Professional Practice” Topic: “Partnership Models Between Academia and Industry”

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Background: Always had a foot in both academia and practice in my 40-year career PHD in I-O Psychology, so natural confluence of both perspectives: work and organizations Pull science and scientific principles to practice, inform future research by understanding the gap between what is known and not known Model for collaboration/...

2022 WAW: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times

Cristina Banks, PhD
Christina Maslach, PhD
Alan Witt, PhD
Siw Tone Innstrand, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Michael P. Leiter, PhD
Ragnhilk Wiik, PhD
Marit Christensen, PhD
2022
2022 Wellbeing at Work Conference Symposium: Wellbeing in Hectic Times Topic: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times (Cristina Banks, Christina Maslach) Opening Remarks New Groundwork The Framework Why the need for an interdisciplinary approach to health, well-being, and productivity? Important Organizational Features for Health, Well-Being and Productivity (Siw Tone Innstrand, Ragnhild Wiik, Marit Christensen, Cristina Banks & Christina Maslach) Health and work cycle What creates a healthy workplace? Description of the study conducted in two countries, Norway and the US, in...

2021 Work, Health, and Stress: Healthy Workplace Design for Hybrid Work Arrangements (Poster)

2021
2021 Work, Health, and Stress Poster Presentation Topic: Healthy Workplace Design for Hybrid Work Arrangements Brief Summary

COVID-19 has taught us a great deal about employees’ basic needs and the importance of addressing these needs during and after COVID. A “hybrid” work arrangement has emerged as the strategic choice for businesses to address employees’ concerns about returning to the workplace and maintaining their autonomy regarding when and where they work. This study evaluates the degree to which workplace designs under a hybrid work arrangement promote employee health, well-being...

2021 ANFA: Spaces for Creative Thinking- Integrating Neuroscience Research Findings in Real-Time & Spaces (Poster)

Cristina Banks, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Cynthia Milota, MA
2021
2021 ANFA Topic: Spaces for Creative Thinking- Integrating Neuroscience Research Findings in Real-Time & Spaces

Neuroscientists have comprehensively assessed the form of environments that support creative thinking, most often in studies that detail the effects of a single physical factor.

These research projects have determined that aspects of indoor physical environments influence the likelihood of creative thinking taking place in a space. Creativity linked design elements include color (surface and light), visual complexity, plants in view, natural lighting, visible wood...

2021 SFDPH: Healthy Work and Workplaces

Cristina Banks, PhD
2021
SFDPH Advance Practice Group Spring Conference Topic: Healthy Work and Workplaces Contents: Working Environment Act Journey to healthy work assessment The Berkeley Workplace Health Assessment Employee health, well-being, and productivity during COVID Employee health, well-being, and productivity post-COVID What can help now? How a Virus Triage Tent Became a Serene Oasis for Health Care Workers

2020 ACS: Healthy Workplaces During Covid-19

Cristina Banks, PhD
2020
2020 ACS Healthy Workplaces During Covid-19 Contents Employee experience Consequences of 100 years of Scientific Management What went wrong? Contemporary approaches to work motivation focus on human needs What are our basic needs? What is a healthy workplace? Why a healthy workplace is important for humans Contributions from the physical environment Contributions from the psychological environment Enter Covid-19 Where people are working and not working today Remote working positives Remote work negatives What needs are not fulfilled with remote work? Taking care of our basic needs How to...

2019 WSH: Development of a Healthy Workplace Assessment (Poster)

Cristina Banks, PhD
Christina Maslach, PhD
Siw Tone Innstrand, PhD
Marit Christensen, PhD
Ragnhilk Wiik, PhD
2019
2019 Work, Stress, and Health (WSH) Topic: Development of a Healthy Workplace Assessment

UC Berkeley and two Norwegian universities, NTNU and BI Business School Stavanger, worked collaboratively to create a cross-culturally relevant assessment tool that can assess the degree to which a workplace embodies organizational elements proven to promote employee health and well-being. Through an iterative process, both US and Norwegian teams identified validated items to include in the new tool. The US team developed new items based on need theories (Maslach & Banks, 2017) where employees are...

2019 HFES: It Takes Partners to Create Solutions Management Wants

Cristina Banks, PhD
Kathleen Mosier, PhD
Kriss Kennedy
Christopher Miller
Andrew Imada
2019
2019 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Annual Meeting Topic: It Takes Partners to Create Solutions Management Wants

The notion of interdisciplinarity is inherent in the principles of human factors and ergonomics. HFE can be described as a multi-disciplinary, user-centric ‘bundling science,’ in that it applies theory, principles, and data from many relevant disciplines to the design of work systems, taking into account the complex interactions between the human and other humans, the external environment, tools and equipment, and technology to enhance human performance and well-...