ABSTRACT

Critical scholars have critiqued workplace health promotion (WHP) discourses for extending managerial influence on workers’ lives, shifting health responsibilities to workers, and disregarding occupational health and safety (OHS) and other structural issues. This essay promotes a worker-centered framework for workplace health, featuring (1) the holistic integration of WHP, OHS, and wellness as well as economic, environmental, and consumer health, (2) substantive worker voice, and (3) structural mechanisms to support worker interests. A case study of five Equitable Food Initiative (EFI)-certified farms demonstrates how these features can be enacted in practice. EFI is a multi-stakeholder, third-party verification and consumer labeling initiative aimed at improving farm working conditions, promoting food safety and environmental stewardship, and boosting business outcomes. Although EFI was not designed as a traditional OHS or WHP initiative, the certified farms in this study model an integrated and participatory approach to employee well-being that also encompasses fenceline communities and consumers.

摘要

批评学者批评工作场所健康促进 (WHP) 的话语扩大了对工人生活的管理影响，将健康责任转移给工人，并无视职业健康与安全 (OHS) 和其他结构性问题。本文提倡以工人为中心的工作场所健康框架，其特点是 (1) WHP、OHS 和健康以及经济、环境和消费者健康的整体整合，(2) 实质性的工人声音，以及 (3) 结构机制支持工人的利益。对五个公平食品倡议 (EFI) 认证农场的案例研究展示了如何在实践中实施这些特征。EFI 是一项多方利益相关者、第三方验证和消费者标签倡议，旨在改善农场工作条件、促进食品安全和环境管理，并提高业务成果。尽管 EFI 并非设计为传统的 OHS 或 WHP 计划，但本研究中的认证农场采用综合和参与式方法来提高员工福祉，其中还包括围栏社区和消费者。