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Wellness & Well-being Highlights April 21st

Work life balance

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of Apr 21, 2025

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at how binge drinking impacts women more than men—to an essay on eating disorders—to a Whistleblower exposing security breaches at the NLRB. This week I would like to take this opportunity to examine how cuts at NIOSH will endanger workers.

For the past +40 years, I have been involved with worker safety in the construction industry…here and abroad. While I must admit that the first 30 of those years were mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety, in the past decade, US-DOL’s OSHA has made strides in emphasizing the mental aspects of safety. Nonetheless, many of these improvements were brought about because of unbiased research performed at institutions such as Duke University, St. Louis University, Washington University, and the University of Iowa via grants from NIOSH (mostly due to NABTU-CPWR’s leadership).

Make no mistake, these latest cuts in Washington, DC will eventually have a negative impact on US workers. As noted by Blackwood, “Without NIOSH, workplaces will become more dangerous, and more workers will die.”[1] In addition, Davis et al, proclaim, “When you remove a keystone from an arch, the whole thing will collapse. The same is true for key federal agencies that provide support resulting in benefits well in excess of the investment in them.”[2]

To this end, industries, like construction, are great examples of how dangers have been mostly eliminated and, thus, more workers come home safely today than 60 years ago. In fact, more progressive construction owners/buyers, contractors, unions, and JATCs have invested millions of dollars and hours in safety-related resources…from designating and skilling up personnel to purchasing the latest equipment to offering ongoing and updated trainings.

Enough is enough! It is only a matter of time when DC’s cuts result in a death of a fellow worker. In the words of MLK, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Will you take a stand?

 

Sources: [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gutting-niosh-endangers-every-u-s-worker/

[2] https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/niosh-cdc-workforce-layoffs-h5n1-bird-flu-worker-safety-occupational-health/

 

MH / Bullying / Workplace

 

Employees & Quiet Cracking

 

Rethinking ADHD

 

MT / Mental Illness / Homelessness

 

Mental Illness / Jail / Starving

 

Danger: Today’s Meth

 

RFK Jr / Autism / Epidemic?

 

Addressing Eating Disorders

 

Binge Drinking: Women v Men

 

WARNING: >8 Drinks per Week

 

Teens & Sleep

 

Fluoride / Drinking Water / Dental Health

 

17 Factors: Stroke/Dementia/Late-life Depression

 

More on Aging & Sleep

 

Weight Loss Pill (GLP-1)

 

Long COVID & Your Brain

 

Low cost / No cost Therapy

 

PLAs do NOT increase Costs

 

Contracting: A Race to the Bottom

 

Construction Worker Shortage: Focus on Women, etc.

 

Construction: Coaching v Sink-or-Swim

 

Construction: Unchecked Subs Fuel Abuse

 

NLRB / ULP / Whistleblower

 

More on NLRB & Whistleblower

 

List of Fed Job Cuts

 

Gutting NIOSH Endangers US Workers

 

More on NIOSH Cuts on Workers

 

Worker Injuries / CDC / Cuts

 

AI & Jobs

 

Trump / Courts / Constitutional Crisis?

 

SCOTUS / Trump / Deportation Ruling

 

US Dept of State: Redefines ‘Human Rights’

 

DOGE: Over-promise & Under-deliver

 

DOGE / NLRB / Security Breach?

 

Musk / NLRB / Unions’ Suit

 

Trump / Fed Judge / Chicago WIT’s Suit

 

Trump & White-collar Crime

 

SCOTUS / ACA / Preventive Care

 

Trump / Jews / Antisemitism?

 

Fed Judge / Trump / Frozen Funds

 

Trump / PBS & NPR / Cuts

 

MO Dems / Filibuster / Paid Sick Leave Cuts

 

Police / MO Politicians / Gun Rights

 

Free Speech / Trump / Research Cuts

 

Don’t be Fooled: AI Imposter Scams

 

More on Sisters of Selma

 

Finding Hot Jobs w/o College Degrees

 

College Degrees v Workplace Certifications

 

Decrease in College Students Projected

 

Passing Down the Fam’s Business

 

Upcoming webinars, etc.:

Free MHFA Training

 

HWC’s SURVEY: Impact of SUD and MH in Business

 

HWC’s Podcast: MSD in the Workplace

 

 

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 jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.

April 21, 2025/by Dr. John Gaal
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