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Archive for category: Worker Wellness News

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Worker Wellness Weekly – Feb. 20

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 February 20, 2022

Combatting burnout

Dealing w/ annoying co-workers

Havana syndrome

Global MH & Happiness

The problem w/ employee wellness programs

3 MH tips

Students / Happiness & Anxiety

Another opioids settlement (1)?

Another opioids settlement (2)?

MO opioids settlement

Fentanyl & Russian roulette

MH / Heat & ER visits

Brain-based approach to treating suicide

Enjoying solitude

Courts’ approach to MH crisis

Condoms & Safer sex?

Tribute to Jane Brody: NYT’s Health Columnist

Is DIY home healthcare a good idea?

Ketamine: A gamble?

Research & psychedelic drugs

Vets / Empty beds & Waiting lists

A hack for better sleep?

Safety forum on MH

Self-care for workers

An asbestos claim

Restaurant workers: Stress & Therapy

Workers: Back to the office?

Omicron & Opening up

COVID & Maternal deaths

COVID / MH / Reopening schools

MH for educators

Women’s soccer & Equal pay

Trade school or College?

After 50: A career refresh

Upcoming webinars:

Relationships & Well-being

Women on the rise

Canadian safety series

 

 

 

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.

 

February 28, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly – Feb. 13

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 February 13, 2022

Rising demand @ MH centers

COVID & MH study

Sacklers up their settlement offer

US Borders / Fentanyl / Cartels

Battling opioids: One town’s approach

Stimulation / Brain / Addiction

America’s MH crisis

MH crisis team in San Diego

Music & MH

MH in schools

Pandemic’s toll on the young?

Construction design & MH

Suicide in construction

More science on Suicide

MH Dashboard

MH & Hobbies 

Dealing w/ Grief (1)

Dealing w/ Grief (2)

Dealing w/ Grief (3)

Dealing w/ Grief (4)

MH & Hugging cows?

When anti-depressants stop working

Healthy breakfasts & Stress

Fake it to Make it?

Flourishing quiz

MH & Support in our schools

MH & Talking to our children

MH & Art therapy

MH & Exercise

Stress & Burnout

Happiness & Ageing

How to age well

A fast growing sport

Love languages

Class war: Which side are you on?

Return to work 

Safe shelter @ work? 

Building DEI in construction

Rehab / Trauma / Pandemic

Slave / Midwife / Hero

“Learning” happiness @ work

Hope for passed over populations?

Workforce opportunities in MO

Upcoming virtual event:  SUD help in the trades

 

 

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.

February 20, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly – February 6

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 February 6, 2022

 

COVID & Learning more about infection

 

Opioids & Congress (1)

Opioids & Congress (2)

OD deaths annual costs US$1T

Opioids & Risk factors

Foreign fentanyl feeds US opioids crisis

Controversial opioids treatment?

Update: Opioids prescribing guidelines for pain

MH strategies for the workplace

Rules for tackling MH during COVID

Is COVID impeding MH access?

A cure for our MH crisis?

Is our MH system broken?

MH in the construction industry

Construction & Inside the hard hat

The compassion quiz

The burnout quiz

MH / Mindfulness / Relationships

MH & Bouncing back

Is meditation working for you?

Being happy vs Well-being

Grief & Rewiring the brain

Workers & More time to grieve in an era of loss

Persistence & Grief

Body image

What is CBT?

Schools & Peer counselors

Pharmacists under pressure

Target’s anti-union stance

Kroger & Homeless workers within

Immigrants & Labor shortages

Hospitals & Staff shortages

Teachers & Walking a tightrope

2022 & Banning books

Sexual harassment & Forced arbitration

Demographic shift

Second careers for those >60

CTE: The price of a perfect NFL season (1972)

NFL & New program to help retired players

Lefties have rights!

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 14, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News Weekly – January 30

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 January 30, 2022

 

R U OK

Collision course & Trauma in the workplace

 

Remote learning: Anxiety & Instability

Building resilience

 

Happy vs Sad?

Loneliness & Keeping friends

 

Loneliness & Working from home

 

Opioids & Forced addiction

 

Controversial opioid treatment

 

Native tribes settlement (1)

Native tribes settlement (2)

 

Resilience fatigue: Digging out

Resilience: Boost your MH

 

MH & Work culture

 

MH in the military

MH: Parents teaching kids

 

MH: College students

MH: Winter Olympics

 

COVID-19 update: Lingering symptoms

 

Keys to well-being

Canada’s Wellness Toolbox

 

Back pain advice

Intuitive eating

Exercises to lower your BP

 

Risk: Marriage / Cohabitating / Divorce

 

Tiny spaces & Your well-being

 

Hard hats & The brain

 

Suicide Prevention Resources

 

Suicide story: Former Miss USA

 

Suicide story: Impermanence

 

Suicide Prevention: How parents can help kids

 

Invisible disability @ work

 

Gender neutral language

 

Colleges & Homelessness

 

Homelessness: Looking inward

 

Amazon chews thru workers

Amazon & Alabama (Round 2)

 

Winter Olympics: Are corporation do-gooders or do-greeders?

Teachers quitting & Companies hiring

 

 

 

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.

 

February 7, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly – January 23

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 January 23, 2022

 

Money & Happiness

 

Celebrating your rejections

 

Moms and Loneliness

 

Women & Construction Career Expo

 

MH Youth Tool Kit

 

MH / Youth / COVID

 

MH & Cancel culture

 

MH & Winter Olympics

 

MH & Retiring

 

MH & Checking out

Purdue Pharma

Opioids & Harm reduction

 

Decriminalizing addiction

Narcan in schools

 

Opioid abuse in Construction

 

Is addiction a disease?

Marijuana / Running / The Brain

Stress / Isolation / Trauma

The benefits of walking

Alcohol & Sleep

Delaying parenthood

 

Menopause & the Workplace

 

Soot levels and Death

Quieting negative chatter

The Vagus nerve

Grief / Loss

Preventing heart disease

Best brain foods?

NFL & Concussions

Canada’s research & TBIs

 

Union jobs & Robots

King Soopers ratifies contract

OSHA withdraws vax rule

How to spot a workplace bully

STL County Council approves apprenticeship requirement

 

No regrets?

Secretary Walsh & The Great Resignation

 

Closing the skills gap

Sexual harassment & Military law

 

Upcoming webinars:

https://www.slcl.org/content/virtual-program-chair-yoga-2

 

https://www.slcl.org/content/virtual-program-herbal-remedies

 

https://www.slcl.org/content/virtual-program-grief-loss

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

January 30, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – January 16

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 January 16, 2022

  • The Green Monster
  • Purdue Pharma (1)
  • Purdue Pharma (2)
  • War on drugs (1)
  • War on drugs (2)
  • Meth & Homelessness
  • Great resignation / Welfare / Men without work
  • MH in the workplace
  • Hybrid work is exhausting
  • Blue Mondays & Productivity
  • Time for change?
  • Healing ceremonies
  • Lack of care after suicide attempts
  • Can anxiety benefit you?
  • Exercise & Anxiety
  • Moms group releases tension
  • Hospitals borrowing Military tactics
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Pleasant, engaged, and meaningful
  • Normalizing MH days
  • STL County Police & Public Wellness
  • COVID’s toll on health & wealth
  • Patron saint of MH?
  • Dorothy Day: A saint?
  • Renaming mental illness & Stigma
  • Thru the eyes of an 11-year-old
  • Children & COVID
  • Parents and lingering pain of online school
  • Sex advice from the elderly
  • Student loans (1)
  • Student loans (2)
  • Terminal disease and one’s future
  • Dementia and youth
  • Supporting workers after a brain injury
  • Canadian researchers & Concussion testing
  • Former football star & MH
  • SLU OT program helps the Homeless
  • Ice & Snow Safety
  • How baby’s scent impacts women vs men
  • Battle for power
  • Union membership dips (1)
  • Union membership dips (2)
  • Respectful negotiations
  • King Soopers strike ends
  • The Workers’ Moment?
  • Parents step in
  • Youth step up
  • Teens driving big rigs?
  • Wealth gap (1)
  • Wealth gap (2)
  • Long overdue recognition
  • Small towns loving Amazon?
  • The age-old value of water

 

 

 

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.

 

January 24, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly – January 9

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 January 9, 2022

  • Safety: Is it education or training?
  • Becoming your own career coach
  • Is HR your new school nurse?
  • Do sick days exist for remote workers?
  • Worker burnout (1)
  • Worker burnout (2)
  • Is “work” promoting wellness?
  • Supreme Court and COVID Vax (1)
  • Supreme Court and COVID Vax (2)
  • Rethinking your assumptions
  • 22 relationship tips
  • Omicron / Tests / Reliability
  • Understanding MH trigger
  • MH outreach @ Netflix
  • MH and the metaverse
  • DIY healthcare?
  • Addiction and the LOVE hormone
  • Missouri OD deaths hit new peak
  • Is addiction a disease?
  • Addiction: Death vs Healing
  • Pro athletes and MH
  • Sleep & Melatonin
  • Tips for better sleep (1)
  • Tips for better sleep (2)
  • 2022’s workouts for the brain & body
  • Seniors & Depression
  • MH & Neuro-feedback
  • Brain fog
  • Love bombing
  • Boston’s homeless (1)
  • Boston’s homeless (2)
  • Disability & Sexual health
  • Healer or Huckster?
  • A Brown and CTE
  • S Bradley’s paralyzing thoughts
  • 2nd election @ Amazon
  • MLB lockout
  • Starbucks union
  • Homeless Kroger workers
  • King Soopers strike
  • A union organizer’s viewpoint
  • Confusion over the PRO Act
  • NLRB & Independent Contractors
  • Are retirees the answer to the worker shortage?
  • Is a promotion a tool for fixing the Great Resignation?
  • DOL and a boss who pays in pennies
  • Abuse within a court’s officer academy

 

 

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.

January 16, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly

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 January 2, 2022

  • Starbucks workers walkout
  • Chicago teachers locked out
  • MH workers are unionizing
  • The global supply chain’s kinks
  • Getting your dream job
  • Burnout & Sabbaticals
  • The IOC’s dilemma: Forced labor in China
  • Vax testing mandate hearing
  • Wristbands & COVID
  • MH resources for employers
  • Dashboard: MH in the construction industry
  • How to beat decision fatigue
  • Opioids / Death / Prison
  • Empathy in the New Year
  • A shot to fight the opioids crisis?
  • Vending machines used to fight the opioids crisis
  • Food insecurity & our military
  • States debate how to fund 988 (Suicide Prevention Lifeline)
  • MH crosses party lines
  • Therapists warning about MH in USA
  • MH & Sheriff’s team
  • MH & First Responders
  • MH & 911 calls
  • MH & your local library
  • MH & Therapist burnout
  • How physical issues impact MH
  • Can you recognize YOUR mental illness?
  • COVID & Children’s MH
  • Decreasing suicides via Rap
  • MH on college campuses
  • Remote learning & Student MH
  • Stress & School disruptions
  • Stress: Ancient wisdom / Modern life
  • Stress & your Heart
  • Limiting telehealth
  • Keeping your resolutions
  • Healthy eating habits
  • Help w/ isolation & grief
  • Grief & the brain
  • Supercharging your brain
  • US Rep Raskin’s reckoning
  • Jimmy Carter’s fear
  • Psychedelic drugs: Promises & Perils
  • Cubans & Natural remedies
  • A Brown / NFL / CTE
  • 10 fitness hacks for 2022
  • Breathing exercise
  • Healthy eating habits for 2022
  • COVID & better relationships
  • Webinars:
    • Navigating change (Jan 11 @ 6p CT)
    • QPR Training (Jan 27 @ Noon CT)

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.

 

January 11, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly December 26

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 December 26, 2021

  • Construction: Unions work safer
  • Amazon & Labor’s new challenge
  • Gig workers in MA
  • White collar raises
  • Flight attendants & COVID
  • COVID & the meat factory
  • Egypt & Sexual harassment
  • Walmart & China’s banned products
  • Archbishop Tutu (1)
  • Archbishop Tutu (2)
  • Sacklers & Purdue Pharma (1)
  • Sacklers & Purdue Pharma (2)
  • Sacklers & Purdue Pharma (3)
  • Teva trial & Opioids (1)
  • Teva trial & Opioids (2)
  • Teva trial & Opioids (3)
  • 2021 & opioids’ toll (1)
  • 2021 & opioids’ toll (2)
  • Fentanyl testing strips
  • DEA’s emoji decoder
  • MH advice for 2022
  • MH & Stigma
  • MH crisis hotlines overwhelmed
  • Grief & the 4 Rs
  • Holidays & Grief (1)
  • Holidays & Grief (2)
  • Authentic listening
  • Fauci / COVID / MH
  • 2022 nutrition tips
  • Healthy tea
  • When best to exercise?
  • Shorter workouts
  • Caregivers & Self-care
  • Advice for aging
  • Elder abuse & COVID
  • Volunteering & Loneliness
  • Preventing loneliness
  • Pets & Social isolation
  • Children / MH / Omicron
  • Teens / TikTok / MH
  • Ketamine & Depression
  • Tech & Drunk driving
  • 2022 & Well-being @ work
  • Dallas Cowboys / COVID / Online learning

 

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.

 

January 2, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness Weekly December 19

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 December 19, 2021

 

  • Labor lesson from a previous pandemic
  • Kellogg’s strike ends (1)
  • Kellogg’s strike ends (2)
  • Amazon & Labor (1)
  • Amazon & Labor (2)
  • Amazon & Labor (3)
  • Amazon’s warehouse culture
  • China’s forced labor
  • 60k STL jobs not coming back soon
  • Stress / Burnout / Resignations
  • Proper PPE for Women
  • MO teachers in distress
  • Anxiety & Office delays
  • Prison & Talent
  • Amazon & Worker suicides
  • College & Student suicides
  • Judge overturns Sackler settlement
  • Children’s MH & Pandemic
  • Death & Distress in America
  • COVID testing, etc.
  • Mental Illness & COVID
  • Non-COVID patients are struggling
  • Proof of vax makes jobs easier
  • The power of Fun & COVID
  • Sober & Curious: Mindful drinking
  • MH / Trauma / Invisible bruises
  • Tips for restful sleep
  • Info overload & Well-being
  • Stopping negative self-talk
  • Declutter your mind
  • Holidays & Grief (1)
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