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.