Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Advance Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being

Jessica M. K. Streit, Sarah A. Felknor, Nicole T. Edwards and John Howard
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Jessica M. K. Streit: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Sarah A. Felknor: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Nicole T. Edwards: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
John Howard: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC 20024, USA

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-19

Abstract: Attending to the ever-expanding list of factors impacting work, the workplace, and the workforce will require innovative methods and approaches for occupational safety and health (OSH) research and practice. This paper explores strategic foresight as a tool that can enhance OSH capacity to anticipate, and even shape, the future as it pertains to work. Equal parts science and art, strategic foresight includes the development and analysis of plausible alternative futures as inputs to strategic plans and actions. Here, we review several published foresight approaches and examples of work-related futures scenarios. We also present a working foresight framework tailored for OSH and offer recommendations for next steps to incorporate strategic foresight into research and practice in order to advance worker safety, health, and well-being.

Keywords: occupational safety and health; methods and approaches; strategic foresight; forecast; scenario; work-related future; worker well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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