Healthy Work Blog
Workers die after being prevented from leaving work despite tornado warnings.
During an historic storm of tornadoes that hit the Midwest U.S. this weekend, multiple workers lost their lives needlessly when a candle factory in Kentucky and an Amazon warehouse in Illinois were destroyed by the tornadoes. Investigations are underway over reports...
Identifying and Reducing Work Stressors is Crucial to Worker Health and Safety
Since the pandemic, worker health and safety has taken center stage. Millions of American workers continue to go to workplaces and may become exposed to the often deadly coronavirus. Workers, their unions and worker health & safety advocates, however, have fought...
Launch of the Healthy Work Survey for Organizations
This week the Healthy Work Campaign is proud to announce that the online Healthy Work Survey (HWS) for organizations, including special content for Employers and for Unions/Worker Advocates, is now available at our website, www.healthywork.org. The HWS project has...
Translating the COVID-19 Successes of the Oakland Teachers Union to Work Organization and Occupational Stress.
By David LeGrande, Healthy Work Campaign - Labor Outreach Coordinator-Strategist In 2020, the Oakland, California teachers' union successfully negotiated rigorous COVID-19 protections in 100 schools throughout the City of Oakland. Their success, the product of an...
Remote Work or Return to the Office?
The Healthy Work Campaign published a new Medium article recently, "Remote Work or Return to the Office? It depends." exploring the enormous transition that many workers made to "remote work" during the pandemic. Up until June there appeared to be some movement from...
Obstacles to Healthy Work
This is the first of a number of blogs detailing the numerous obstacles in the U.S. to creating healthy workplaces that in turn promote healthy work.Today the New York Times published an article by Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura (@kimidefreytas) titled "A Hospital Finds an...
Heat Stress: Climate Change and Healthy Work
Heat-related injuries and fatalities are again a major concern for public health, as extreme temperatures have made an early appearance especially in the western and southern regions of the United States. According to the CDC Heat and Health Tracker in an average...
“Work, Health, Stress” A Collaboration between CSE and Suramericana, Colombia
The CSE has been invited by Sebastián Segura (PRAX) and Viviola Gómez (Professor, the Stress and Health Research Group of the Universidad de los Andes) to collaborate with Suramericana — a large Colombian occupational health insurance company that provides workplace...
WHO/ILO: Long work hours contribute to deaths worldwide
Long working hours are increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke — a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) — documents that long working hours (>55 hours a week) contributed to 745,000 deaths in...
New Medium Article “Work Stress in the Age of COVID” just published
Members of the HWC team published a new article on Medium today, "Work Stress in the Age of COVID." The article - based on a recent editorial published by our team, Pouran Faghri, Marnie Dobson, Paul Landsbergis, and Peter Schnall, in the Journal of Occupational and...