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THE WHITE PAPER

Worksite Health ScoreCard that helps employers evaluate
their occupational safety and health and health promotion
programs for the prevention of heart disease, stroke and
other cardiovascular-related health effects. The scorecard has
125 questions on a variety of topics on occupational health
and safety, physical activity, stress management, diabetes
prevention and organizational support.3
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) has a Total Worker Health program that
offers information to employers on how to evaluate their
workplaces and ways to improve workplace safety and
health.4 (You can also read about "Total Worker Health: An
Interesting Perspective" in a previous White Paper column in
Compoundings, March 2015, Vol. 65 No. 3.5) Regarding "Life's
Simple 7" mentioned above, the American Heart Association
provides information to employees on how to manage
these cardiovascular health metrics and keep track of their
progress.6

4. Total Worker Health Program, www.cdc.gov/niosh/twh/steps.html
5. White, EM. 2015. Total Worker Health: An Interesting Perspective. White
Paper, Compoundings Magazine, Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association, Alexandria, Virginia, March 2015, 15(3):32-33.
6. American Heart Association, www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/MyLife-Check---Lifes-Simple-7_UCM_471453_Article.jsp#.V7TC13L6v1c
7. Mozaffarian, D, Benjamin, EJ, Go, AS, et al. 2016. Writing Group Members:
American Heart Association Statistics Committee: Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics 2016 update; a report from
the American Heart Association. Circulation 133:e38-360, http://dx.doi.
org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000350

White is a former industry EH&S manager and federal research
scientist, and chaired ILMA's Safety, Health, Environmental and
Regulatory Affairs Committee (SHERA) from 2005 to 2007. He is
a recipient of ILMA's highest honor, the Nachtman Award. White
also contributed to the 2015 5th International Conference on Metal
Removal Fluids by being part of the abstract reviewing committee.
He may be reached at XLK1492@aol.com.

A Heartfelt Conclusion
Here's a closing and another sobering thought: The American
Heart Association projects that by 2030, 43.9 percent of the
U.S. population will experience some form of cardiovascular
disease, and indirect costs attributed to lost productivity will
increase by about 58 percent to $290 billion.7 In this regard,
many scientific studies point to both employment status and
occupational group as significant factors that merit further
cardiovascular health research in order to better understand
their roles in occupational health and safety.
While we can all do more to foster and improve our individual
CHMs, the old mantra that healthy workers are productive
workers is always a given, and the promotion of good heart
health is essential to optimize all phases of our daily lives.
1. Shockey, TM, Sussell, AL, and Odom, EC. 2016. Cardiovascular Health Status
by Occupational Group - 21 States, 2013. MMWR Weekly, 65(31):793-798,
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6531a1.htm?s_cid=mm6531a1_e
(Note: The data sets used in the quoted MMWF study were from the following 21 states: California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming)

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2. CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), www.cdc.gov/brfss/
about/about_brfss.htm
3. www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/initiatives/healthscorecard/
worksite-scorecard.html
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