New survey instrument available from NIOSH to help assess worker well-being
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announces a new resource designed to measure worker well-being. The NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ) is a freely available survey instrument intended to help employers, workers, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers understand workers’ well-being and target interventions to improve worker well-being.
“Worker well-being is an unifying concept that characterizes quality of life with respect to a person’s working conditions, circumstances outside of work, and physical and mental health status,” said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D. “NIOSH is excited to offer this new tool that anyone can use to evaluate worker well-being in order to help identify opportunities to advance worker well-being through workplace policies, programs, and practices.”