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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Mar 27;31(3):404–411. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00317-5

Table 1.

Worksite health and safety interventions across the Social Ecological Framework

Social Ecological Domain Strategies Examples
Individual • Employee health is considered holistically in terms of both minimizing hazardous exposures and health promoting activities. • Employer provides free PPE to workers
• Work expectations consider limitations caused by PPE.
• Employees are encouraged not to work when ill.
Interpersonal • Customers are oriented toward the potential product risk for worker, client and community.
• Workers are encouraged to engage in walking groups.
• In-service trainings on products and potential exposures.
• Client customer contracts on product use.
• Workers are encouraged to support each other.
Organizational • Administrative safety protocols
• Engineering interventions
• Increased access to health care
• CHW-facilitated worksite assessments
• Increased ventilation
• Workplace health screenings
• Employer negotiated health insurance
Community • Community-based participatory research
• Community coalitions
• Community campaigns
• Building change agent capacity
• Business owners and workers, family members and clients engaged in documenting and prioritizing issues
• CHW ambassadors
• Promoting of best practices.
Policy • State and National Standards
• Worksite resources & enforcement
• Ventilation standards and enforcement for nail shops
• Requirements for more detailed product labeling
• County funds for worksite improvements that benefit community health