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 October 9, 2022

Workplace MH policy

CRISIS: US’s shortage of MH providers

STL City’s response to MH crisis

US already has a solution to MH crisis?

Best states for MH

Colleges & MH crisis teams

Parents’ guide to MH

Anxiety screening for kids?

Suicide Prevention Guide

On losing a child to suicide

Teens & Opioids crisis

Amazon & selling poison for teen suicides

Why “family dinner” matters!

Opioids & Fentanyl: A journey & A war

LA Angels & Fentanyl

Colorful Fentanyl & Halloween?

Burnout / Work / Isolation

Grief & Depression

The NAP ministry

Holidays: How to tell people you are NOT drinking

Unions & Career earnings

How consultants wield undue influence

Tight labor market / Hiring / Criminal records

US ups visas for seasonal workers

Understanding TBIs

Return to Work for those recovering from TBIs

Concussions & Headaches

Tua’s injury & NFL protocol (1)

Tua’s injury & NFL protocol (2)

Tua’s injury & NFL protocol (3)

Upcoming webinar:

Creating a culture of MH

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 18, 2022

Construction / Suicide Prevention / HOPE

Screening adults for anxiety (1)

Screening adults for anxiety (2)

Nurse’s warning to schools: Fentanyl

Why opioids OD deaths increased

Opioids / Doctors / Supreme Court

Addiction & The Brain

Food & Your Brain

The politics of MH

Police & MH

Australia’s approach to MH

Your muscles & MH

Moms / Mushrooms / Micro-dosing

EMDR therapy

Autumn & Mindfulness

College guide & Anxiety

Seniors & Cost of Living

Coping w/ higher prices?

Today’s apprenticeships

Bosses & Balance

Trapping today’s workers

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 August 14, 2022

Inflation reduction & Working people

MH workers on strike

988 Update (1)

988 Update (2)

Harm reduction: More action, less talk

More on harm reduction

Maine: Opioids crisis response

Missouri: Opioids crisis response

Stopping the fentanyl menace in STL

Opioids Court Cases Update (1)

Opioids Court Cases Update (2)

Opioids Court Cases Update (3)

Scotland & Free Period Products

Gen Z and quiet quitting

Forgetting the work friendship

Leading by example

Quitting & Balance

WFH & Anxiety

Doctors / Drugs / Burnout

Millennials & Polio vax

Grief & Rewiring the brain

Coping & Journaling

Meditation & MH

Back pain exercises

When to drink water

Sweat & Keeping cool

Hearing aids

Tea & Nutrition

Reducing high school football (heat) deaths

Eye tests for concussions?

Online training:

FREE Suicide Prevention Training

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 July 31, 2022

Sobriety in the trades

Heat & New rules for workers?

Monkeypox (1)

Monkeypox (2)

Monkeypox (3)

Monkeypox (4)

Monkeypox (5)

COVID Long-haulers

Fentanyl crisis in STL

The new poison on our streets

Fentanyl & Expanding harm reduction

Cartels / Opioids / Big pharma

Opioids / Pain / Global shortages

Regulating new alternatives for cannabis

Schools & Mental Health Days

The quarter-life crisis

Dehydration & MH

Having a sense of purpose

Does 988 have issues?

A pacemaker for the brain?

Take a walk after eating

Tips for better sleep

Alzheimer’s & New treatments?

The evolution of ASL

CTE: The price of greatness?

Upcoming Webinar(s):

Suicide Prevention Training

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.