Tracking the Market Performance of Companies That Integrate a Culture of Health and Safety: An Assessment of Corporate Health Achievement Award Applicants.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the hypothesis that stock market performance of companies achieving high scores on either health or safety in the Corporate Health Achievement Award (CHAA) process will be superior to average index performance.

Methods: The stock market performance of portfolios of CHAA winners was examined under six different scenarios using simulation and past market performance in tests of association framed to inform the investor community.

Results: CHAA portfolios out-performed the S&P average on all tests.

Integrating health and safety in the workplace: how closely aligning health and safety strategies can yield measurable benefits.

Objective: To better understand how integrating health and safety strategies in the workplace has evolved and establish a replicable, scalable framework for advancing the concept with a system of health and safety metrics, modeled after the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Methods: Seven leading national and international programs aimed at creating a culture of health and safety in the workplace were compared and contrasted.

Results: A list of forty variables was selected, making it clear there is a wide variety of approaches to integration of health and safety in the workplace.

Medical evacuations from oil rigs off the Gulf Coast of the United States from 2008 to 2012: reasons and cost implications.

Objective: To identify reasons for air medical evacuations from oil rigs/platforms.

Methods: Retrospective review of data of medical calls from 102 rigs/platforms in the US Gulf Coast from 2008 through 2012 with specific analysis of medevacs.

Results: On average, 1609 total calls per year relating to illness or injury on the 102 oil rigs/platforms with 4% to 7% requiring medical air evacuation.

Exploring national surveillance for health-related workplace absenteeism: lessons learned from the 2009 influenza A pandemic.

Background: During the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a pilot study to test the feasibility of using national surveillance of workplace absenteeism to assess the pandemic's impact on the workplace to plan for preparedness and continuity of operations and to contribute to health awareness during the emergency response.

Methods: Population-based and sentinel worksite approaches were used. Monthly measures of the 1-week prevalence of health-related absenteeism among full-time workers were estimated using nationally representative data from the Current Population Survey.

The link between workforce health and safety and the health of the bottom line: tracking market performance of companies that nurture a "culture of health".

Objective: To test the hypothesis that comprehensive efforts to reduce a workforce's health and safety risks can be associated with a company's stock market performance.

Methods: Stock market performance of Corporate Health Achievement Award winners was tracked under four different scenarios using simulation and past market performance.

Results: A portfolio of companies recognized as award winning for their approach to the health and safety of their workforce outperformed the market.

Advancing workplace health protection and promotion for an aging workforce.

Objective: To explore issues related to the aging workforce, including barriers to integrating health protection and promotion programs, and provide recommendations for best practices to maximize contributions by aging workers.

Methods: Workgroups reviewed literature and case studies to develop consensus statements and recommendations for a national approach to issues related to older workers.

Results: Consensus statements and actions steps were identified for each of the Summit goals and call-to-action statements were developed.

Medication adherence, comorbidities, and health risk impacts on workforce absence and job performance.

Objective: To understand impacts of medication adherence, comorbidities, and health risks on workforce absence and job performance.

Methods: Retrospective observational study using employees' medical/pharmacy claims and self-reported health risk appraisals.

Results: Statin medication adherence in individuals with Coronary Artery Disease was significant predictor (P < 0.

Health and productivity as a business strategy.

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the magnitude of health-related lost productivity relative to medical and pharmacy costs for four employers and assess the business implications of a "full-cost" approach to managing health.

Methods: A database was developed by integrating medical and pharmacy claims data with employee self-report productivity and health information collected through the Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ). Information collected on employer business measures were combined with this database to model health-related lost productivity.

Health-related workplace productivity measurement: general and migraine-specific recommendations from the ACOEM Expert Panel.

An establishment of health-related productivity measurements and critical evaluation of health-related productivity tools is needed. An expert panel was created. A literature search was conducted to identify health-related productivity measurement tools.