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The Healthy Work Survey is a short, standardized online tool to assess the level of work-related psychosocial risk based on distributions from a U.S. national working population. Occupational medicine professionals can easily access this free tool and report to evaluate individual and workplace psychosocial hazards impacting worker health and safety. Objectives Work-related psychosocial stressors have been recognized as occupational hazards and assessed in workplaces in many countries for decades. Identifying tools to measure work-related psychosocial hazards to increase awareness in the United States about the impact on employees’ health and safety is critical (J Occup Environ Med. 2021;63:e245–e249). Methods We describe the development and psychometric validation of an online tool, the Healthy Work Survey, utilizing items from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Quality of Work Life questionnaire. Results There are 55 items in the final core work section of the HWS. Factor analyses confirmed nine factors, and the subsequent multi-item scales had acceptable internal consistency. A user-friendly, online system and automated report compares individual’s and organization’s scores to distributions from a representative US working population (General Social Survey Quality of Work Life). Discussion The HWS is a reliable, valid tool for organizations and individuals to assess psychosocial work hazards.