The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends smoke-free policies to reduce secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use. Read effectiveness and economic evidence from systematic review. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/23/2026
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends on-site, free, actively promoted influenza vaccinations to increase coverage among healthcare workers. Read effectiveness and economic evidence URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/26/2026
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends on-site, reduced cost, actively promoted influenza vaccinations to increase coverage among non-healthcare workers. Read effectiveness evidence. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/26/2026
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends worksite obesity prevention and control programs. Read the effectiveness evidence from systematic review. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/30/2025
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends worksite-based incentives and competitions with additional interventions to reduce tobacco use. Read evidence from systematic review. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/22/2026
Employers who support worksite-based nutrition and physical activity programs can help improve the health outcomes of their employees. Specific programs combatting obesity have encouraged behavior change through workplace spaces for physical activity, aug URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
To help ease the costs associated with transportation, employers can provide transportation benefits that come in the form of subsidies for parking, public transportation, or bicycle maintenance or pre-tax transportation cost contributions. Some municipal URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Strengthening overtime rules at the municipal level could protect populations or employees who are not currently eligible for overtime pay from working long hours without compensation. Currently, the State of Massachusetts does not require overtime paymen URL: Visit resource Date … Continued
Providing workers with advanced notice of schedules and the choice to decline unscheduled hours that conflict with other obligations is a way to support a healthy workforce . To increase the predictability of scheduling, policymakers at the state and loca … Continued
Flexible scheduling practices give workers more control over the schedules and increase their work predictability. Some best practices include incorporating self-scheduling, flexible hours, and compressed work weeks. Additionally, state and local policyma URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
