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As we have reported previously, Business Pulse: Workplace Safety and Health, is a regular and terrific set of resources produced by the CDC Foundation. It “focuses on innovative employer strategies for emerging worker safety and health issues while also addressing well-recognized workplace hazards and exposures by using science-based solutions from CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).”

While NIOSH looks at workplace safety issues, of course, it also notes various employee health conditions — including chronic disease management — that should continually be addressed.

Writes Business Pulse: “U.S. employers face complex challenges in today’s workplace ranging from the $263 billion economic burden of worker injuries and illnesses to a rapidly changing workforce and the costly consequences of work-related stress and chronic disease management. In 2013 alone, 4 million new nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses and 4,405 deaths from work-related injuries were reported.

And clearly, the focus on chronic health conditions is key. Business Pulse adds: “Nearly 50% of Americans have at least one chronic health condition. And, of those, almost half have multiple chronic conditions such as hypertension, cholesterol disorders and respiratory diseases. Many chronic diseases can be caused or worsened by workplace exposures or working conditions.”

For more information on the role of chronic disease, check out this infographic from the report: