TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Protecting Workers’ Health, Safety, and Well-being A1 - Wagner, Gregory R. A1 - Spieler, Emily A. A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - People who are fully employed spend over one third of their lives at work, commuting to or from work, or engaged in other work-related activities. To a greater or lesser extent, work furnishes the material resources that enable people to address basic human needs, including housing, food, and access to health insurance. Work helps individuals flourish by providing a sense of purpose, meaning, and social support. And, when work provides adequate resources, it also enables people to address out-of-work responsibilities and pursue nonwork interests. On the other hand, employment and the work environment can pose serious threats to health and well-being by exposing workers to hazardous conditions that may result in physical injury, illness, disability or death, or to stressful, bullying or discriminatory environments that threaten psychological well-being. In private industry, work hazards account for at least 5200 injury-related deaths, almost 3 million serious injuries, and unnumbered deaths from occupational exposures annually.1 By all measures, work is a significant determinant of health. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182674059 ER -