Wellness & Well-being Highlights December 18
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of December 18, 2023
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics concerning the rise of homelessness across the USA, in general, but more specifically regarding our Vets to how a prominent pharmacist promotes the crucial role NARCAN now plays in our country to how some common US military training exercises have not only been detrimental to soldiers’ brains but society as well. Today, I wish to shed some light on a recent announcement from OSHA that mandates ALL of their construction inspectors begin using Safety Helmets vs hard hats on job sites. As noted previously in this blog, according to the CDC (2016), from 2003-10, TBIs (traumatic brain injuries) made up nearly 25% of all construction fatalities…the most of ANY category! Let’s hope that by OSHA modeling this evidenced-based behavior others across the industry will soon follow. I personally thank the likes of Alberici, McCarthy, Milwaukee Tool, and ASCC for taking the lead on this key safety matter! Change always seems to bring about pushback…due to fear of the unknown. Over time, the industry has and will adapt not unlike it did for drug testing, safety glasses, safety vests, etc. As a retired Carpenter, speaking from experience, I wish hearing protection was mandatory and enforced +40 years ago.
Sources: https://blog.bluebeam.com/safety-helmets-hard-hats-construction/
https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/12112023
US Homelessness hits New Record
MH services lacking in MO jails (1)
MH services in MO jails lacking (2)
NYC / Teens / School ban on Cell Phones
UMSL / Addiction Team / Opioid Epidemic
Children / Fentanyl / Exposure Deaths
A mother’s journey to save her child
Safe disposal of unused medications
Opioid OD Victims’ 2nd trauma: Being cheated out of lawsuit settlements
Postpartum Depression Treatment
Is life expectancy increasing?
Megafactories / Workers / Recruiting
Gen Z & Trust in the Workplace
KC Builders Assoc New President
US-DOL rulemaking: Registered Apprenticeship Programs
Safety Helmets in Construction (1)
Safety Helmets in Construction (2)
Safety Helmets in Construction (3)
Upcoming webinars, etc.:
Coping strategies for grief & loss
New Study: Conversations on Access to Lethal Means
Meditation & Post-Concussion Healing
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.
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