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ReviewAmerican journal of industrial medicine2020

Envisioning the future of work to safeguard the safety, health, and well-being of the workforce: A perspective from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Sara L Tamers, Jessica Streit, Rene Pana-Cryan, Tapas Ray, Laura Syron, Michael A Flynn, Dawn Castillo, Gary Roth, Charles Geraci, Rebecca Guerin and 5 more

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Review in American journal of industrial medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2024
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Sara L TamersNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6439-0947
Jessica StreitNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0935-2948
Rene Pana-CryanNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Tapas RayNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4205-1119
Laura SyronNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Spokane, Washington, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1477-996X
Michael A FlynnNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5338-5360
Dawn CastilloNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
Gary RothNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Charles GeraciNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Rebecca GuerinNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Paul SchulteNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0696-0446
Scott HennNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Chia-Chia ChangNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Sarah FelknorNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
John HowardNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1875-3516

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The future of work embodies changes to the workplace, work, and workforce, which require additional occupational safety and health (OSH) stakeholder attention. Examples include workplace developments in organizational design, technological job displacement, and work arrangements; work advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and technologies; and workforce changes in demographics, economic security, and skills. This paper presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Future of Work Initiative; suggests an integrated approach to address worker safety, health, and well-being; introduces priority topics and subtopics that confer a framework for upcoming future of work research directions and resultant practical applications; and discusses preliminary next steps. All future of work issues impact one another. Future of work transformations are contingent upon each of the standalone factors discussed in this paper and their combined effects. Occupational safety and health stakeholders are becoming more aware of the significance and necessity of these factors for the workplace, work, and workforce to flourish, merely survive, or disappear altogether as the future evolves. The future of work offers numerous opportunities, while also presenting critical but not clearly understood difficulties, exposures, and hazards. It is the responsibility of OSH researchers and other partners to understand the implications of future of work scenarios to translate effective interventions into practice for employers safeguarding the safety, health, and well-being of their workers.

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ForecastingOrganizational PolicyHumansNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S.Occupational HealthUnited StatesWorkforceWorkplacefuture of workoccupational safety and healthTotal Worker Healthworker well-being

Identifiers

PMID32926431
PMCPMC7737298

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