Wellness & Well-being Highlights October 9

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of October 9, 2023

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics on how perceived moderate dangers on the job may pose greater actual threats to your safety to how sexual minorities are reporting worse mental & physical health on construction jobs to how new data suggests that people in the USA w/o a college degree have shorter life spans. Today, I wish to shed some light on the issue of suicide postvention. Most of us are aware of workshops, etc. that address suicide prevention (e.g., Living Works: Start Training) and suicide intervention (e.g., QPR & ASIST Trainings) but few of us are able to cite where one might go to receive help after a loved one dies by suicide. Postvention can take on different forms: Immediate or On-going. Immediate assistance can come in the form of a crisis intervention team (i.e., LOSS: Local Outreach for Suicide Survivors) that helps individuals/families navigate the hours, days, weeks following a suicide. On-going assistance can be in the form of a live or virtual peer support group (i.e., AFSP: Bereavement Support Group) that helps individuals/families navigate the months, years following a suicide of a loved one. The manager’s guide linked below is a good start for those of us in leadership positions. PLEASE take some time in the next few days to review the material contained herein. Years ago, studies revealed that 1 suicide impacts 6 people. More recent data suggests that the number is more likely closer to 130! I serve as living proof that being there for others in their time of need ripples beyond the workplace.

 

Source: https://theactionalliance.org/sites/default/files/managers-guidebook-to-suicide-postvention-web.pdf

 

Developing Healthy Habits

 

Suicide Postvention: A Manager’s Guidebook

 

On Workplace Dangers

 

OSHA / Workers / Heat

 

Minorities / Construction / MH

 

Construction & Happy Workers?

 

Children & Gun Deaths

 

AI & Homelessness

 

Expanding Pharmacists’ scope

 

Are you in need a of Social Worker?

 

Menopause Home Test

 

On Insulin Resistance

 

Evolution / Mammals / Behaviors

 

Dockworkers file for bankruptcy

 

Granite City Steel shutdown

 

Healthcare Workers Strike

 

Update: UAW Strike

 

Florida & Guest Workers

 

Corporate Social Responsibility?

 

On the Teacher Crisis

 

College Degrees & Life Expectancy

 

Older Workers & Student Loans

 

Upcoming webinars, etc.:

Free Narcan

 

QPR Suicide Prevention Training

 

Prepping for the HiSET

 

STL MetroMarket

 

 

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.