Wellness & Well-being Highlights July 28th

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of July 28, 2025

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at numerous cities across the USA that under a heat alert—to the negative impact of working alone—to the concept of ‘quiet cracking.’ This week I would like to take a closer look at burnout.

Barnes says, “Burnout is workload and environment-related stress, resulting from unhappy or overworked employees.[1] Meanwhile, the

…World Health Organization (WHO) defines employee burnout as a syndrome from workplace stress that employers don’t successfully manage, rather than a medical condition. Whether clinically diagnosable or not, burnout is a serious concern that — if unmanaged — could profoundly impact employee health and workplace safety.[1]

This article presents itself as a timely piece. Why? Because, once again, Aetna, along with CFSTL and the Missouri Works Initiative have teamed up to bring the Summer Construction Mental Health Series to the Greater St. Louis region. In fact, it kicks off on Tuesday this week (7/29) at the Sheet Metal Workers (Local 36) Hall at 7:30a. The first segment in this 3-part series focuses on the following related topics:

*Psychological Safety

*Psychological First Aid

*Culture of Care

*Working Wounded

The second segment will focus on Suicide Postvention in the Construction Industry. It will be held on 8/21 at the Local 562 Plumbers & Pipefitters Training School (seating is limited). The third and final segment will be offered on 9/18 at IBEW (Local 1) Hall. The topic that day will be Gambling Addiction in the Construction Industry.

These events are FREE but require registration. For more info visit:

https://constructforstl.org/upcoming-events/mental-health-in-the-public-labor-industry/

Last summer’s Construction Mental Health Series generated positive momentum in the industry. How? It was the basis for St. Louis University‘s CEET program director to jointly develop a 5-part follow-up series that ran from November 2024 to March 2025. Wherein, a rep from a major STL union electrical contractor connected with fellow invested participants. As a result, just last week, the St. Louis Building Trades Wellness Coalition was launched. Stay tuned for more details!

Please check out the rest of this week’s blog: https://moworksinitiative.org/category/worker-wellness-news/

Source: [1] https://www.thesafetymag.com/ca/topics/safety-and-ppe/the-effects-of-burnout-on-safety-compliance/543563?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io&utm_campaign=newsletter

Cities Under Heat Alert

Teens / Screens / MH

Teens & Caffeine Pouches

Lone Workers & Psychosocial Risks

Burnout & Safety

Sick Days & Lies

PA / Construction / Opioids

Your Kids & Cannabis

Youth MH

Grandmas Redefined