Archive for category: Worker Wellness News

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of November 20, 2022

 

Missouri’s MH ranking

 

Sick Kids / Parents / School Nurses

Kids & Therapy: Face Your Fears?

 

COVID Depression

 

Prepping for stressful days

 

Your resilience score

10-minute Workout

 

Reducing crime?

Deaths in jail

Doctors & Gaslighting

Students / Universities / Gambling

Student loan Update

 

IL & Workers’ Rights Amendment

 

STL KIPP Charter School votes for union

 

Pope / Ethical Investing

 

Who will pay for climate damages?

 

Why fossil fuels matter?

 

World Cup Update (1)

 

World Cup Update (2)

 

World Cup Update (3)

 

Stanford soccer / Suicide / Wrongful death suit

 

College discontinues 2 collision sports

 

A test for CTE in living?

 

Another country, another sport, another CTE death?

 

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of November 6, 2022

 

Schools / Grief / MH

PTSD / TBIs in Sports & Military

Life After War

A COVID Memorial?

COVID Lockdown: China (1)

COVID Lockdown in China (2)

COVID & Absenteeism / Productivity

Methadone / New Rules / Backfire?

Psilocybin & Treatment Resistant Depression

Statins v Supplements

Panic Attack

Coping w/ Body Insults

Benefit$ of Marriage?

Benefits of Being Nice

2-minute Sleep Method

Sleep Tips

Social Jet Lag

The Rowing Machine

Safety Helmets v Hard Hats

CTE Deniers?

NFL & Workplace Harassment

2022: Child Labor

Expanding H-1B Visas

French Church & Child Abuse

Taking a Rest & Work

Self-care & WFH

Digital Nomads?

Update: Student Loan Forgiveness

Upcoming Webinars, etc.:

 

https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/about/understandings#eublock1

 

https://www.agrisafe.org/event/webinar-fall-prevention-in-older-adults/

 

  

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of October 16, 2022

Workplace & MH

Workplace & MH report: US Surgeon General

School kids & MH: Funding?

MH care for families & Debt

Journaling & MH

MH & Exercise

Is therapy working?

A struggle to obtain Medicaid coverage

How one addiction specialist made a change

One state’s harm reduction strategy

Fentanyl & Marketing

Appalachian Elegy

Opioids & Benadryl

LSD & Flashbacks

Prisons & Suicides

Emotional health & Laziness?

Perfectionism v Excellence

Perimenopause & Mood swings

Natural insomnia remedies

Sex therapy & Well-being?

Update: OTC Hearing Aids

Remote workers & Disabilities

Asbestos & Cancer

Great resignation & Job security

Costco / Teamsters / First contract

STL Starbucks / T-shirt / Firing

US-DOL overtime rule change

TRAPs

Student debt relief court appeal

Trade secrets (1)

Trade secrets (2)

Wind energy & Diversity

 

Upcoming webinars:

The Need for Meaningful Connections: Combating Older Adult Loneliness and Suicidality

Substance Use Disorder in Older Americans

Health Equity Workshop #1

Health Equity Workshop #2

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of September 25, 2022

World Mental Health Day: OCT 10

WHO: MH @ Work Guidelines

Mayors support worker MH

Guidebook for suicide loss

Suicide Prevention & Gun Safety

Kids / Sleep / School start times

Eating disorders & TikTok

Fentanyl crisis (1)

Fentanyl crisis (2)

“Brief” MH approaches

Age / Smoking / Loneliness

Race & Depression

Stopping Gaslighting?

Preventing MH burnout

Grief v Complicated Grief

Roots of success: Humility….

NFL & Head injuries (1)

NFL & Head injuries (2)

NFL & Head injuries (3)

NFL & Head injuries (4)

NFL & Head injuries (5)

Quiet firings?

Upcoming webinars:

Mindfulness

Chair yoga

Recorded Webinars / Podcasts:

Suicide Prevention in the Construction Industry

Suicide Prevention in Ag: CALM

Total Farmer Health

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.