Healthy Work Blog
Black Lives Matter: Perspectives from the Healthy Work Campaign
Along with the coronavirus pandemic, America’s epidemic of racism has taken a disproportionate number of black* lives.We watched the Black Lives Matter protests erupt in early June, after another white police officer kneeled on the neck and suffocated another black...
Mayday, Mayday 2020: Workplace Mental Health, Stress and Injury Prevention
Mayday, Mayday is an internationally recognized cry for help. "Mayday" is a celebration of "the contribution of workers the world over... ... and "the critically important subject of Workplace Mental Health, especially as we all strive to cope with the impact of the...
Stress in the Time of COVID-19
As we published our new Medium Article last week Blurred Boundaries: Work-life balance in the time of COVID-19, we received a newly released Stress in America report from the American Psychological Association (APA) on Stress in the Time of COVID-19. Between March 26...
Work Stressors contribute to the following health outcomes
There has been a lot of work documenting the role of work stressors in contributing to illness in working people. The list of health outcomes is considerable. Work stressors such as job strain, imbalance between effort and reward (ERI) , threat avoidant vigilance...
Is the government giving up on protecting working people from Covid-19
It appears that the U.S. government is exploring the possibility of trying to get working people back on the job without providing them with adequate protection in the form of PPE or insisting on proper social distancing. Sending people back to work without protection...
Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2020
At 11am this morning the world stopped to recognize International Workers Memorial Day (April 28) and remember the tens of thousands of workers who die on the job every year and especially those who have died this year from COVID-19. We at the Healthy Work Campaign...
How to protect “essential’ working people from COVID-19 Epidemic
To protect the vulnerable from Covid-19 requires active, assertive and comprehensive identification of 1) those at risk; 2) those infected (but not symptomatic); 3) those with active symptoms; and 4) those who have been infected and now have immunity and can safely...
What We Are Reading Now
Here's what we are reading now "Chris Cuomo, Stay in Bed” (Politico, April 6, 2020) "Gaps in Amazon’s Response as Virus Spreads to More Than 50 Warehouses" (NY Times, April 5, 2020) "The Amazon Warehouse Worker Who Can’t Stay Home" (GEN/Medium, March 24, 2020) "Nurses...
Our New Webinar: Identifying and Preventing Work Stressors to Reduce Chronic Disease
On March 11, 2020, HWC team members, Drs. Paul Landsbergis, Marnie Dobson and Peter Schnall presented Identifying and Preventing Work Stressors to Reduce Chronic Disease: The Healthy Work Campaign, a webinar hosted by the Center for Healthy Work, University of...
Healthy Work Now Newsletter No. 6 – A Note Marnie Dobson & Peter Schnall
A note from HWC Co-Directors, Marnie Dobson & Peter Schnall The world has vastly changed since our last newsletter (December 2019) as we face an unprecedented global pandemic. The coronavirus (specifically COVID-19, named after the year it was discovered) has...