Project A: Integrated Approaches to Improving the Health and Safety of Health Care Workers

"The intervention follows principles for integrated approaches to promoting and protecting worker health. It will occur on 4 inpatient units at Massachusetts General Hospital beginning in January 2013, and will continue for 1 year.~Overall intervention objectives:~1. Motivate individual staff members to engage in targeted health and safety behavior changes;~2. build awareness of ergonomic and safety hazards and of opportunities for healthy dietary choices and physical activity;~3. facilitate unit-level norms supportive of breaks, safe patient handling, and targeted health and safety behaviors; and~4. promote co-worker and supervisor support for targeted health and safety behaviors."