Healthy Work Blog
Why Workplace Suicide Prevention Efforts Need a Healthy Work Strategy
Marnie Dobson Zimmerman, Ph.D. and Paul Landsbergis, Ph.D. Suicide: A growing US crisis September was Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. Globally, more than 700,000 people die of suicide every year, and many more attempt suicide or have a serious mental health...
Healthy Work Campaign Joins the “Hot Labor Summer”
by Marnie Dobson Zimmerman, PhD What is a “hot labor summer” Los Angeles, California has been called the “epicenter” of the “hot labor summer” where one hundred thousand hotel workers, writers, actors and city staff are bearing the heat to fight for fair pay, job...
What is wrong with the U.S.? HWC team members weigh in on “Deaths of Despair,” falling life expectancy, and recent interview with Case and Deaton on MSNBC
By Paul Landsbergis, Donald Goldmacher & Peter Schnall In a recent conversation, HWC team members, Paul Landsbergis, Donald Goldmacher and Peter Schnall weighed in on the complex factors - including work - that may be giving rise to falling life expectancy in the...
Healthy Work as “Stress Management”: ISMA-Brazil 2023
I recently returned from a very long, but worthwhile, journey to Porto Alegre, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I was invited to present by Ana Maria Rossi, President of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA), Brazil, in a two-day...
Total Worker Health® 3rd International Symposium Oct 11-Oct 14, 2022
The 3rd International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health® begins Tuesday October 11 through Friday October 14, 2022. HWC co-directors Marnie Dobson and Peter Schnall are making a virtual presentation from the Healthy Work Campaign on Wednesday, Oct 12 at 2pm...
Will Gavin Newsom Stand With Workers?
Fast food and farm workers are fighting for healthy working conditions, including living wages and better treatment. Advocates of California Assembly Bill 257 and Governor Gavin Newsom California Assembly Bill 257, known as the FAST Recovery Act, is legislation that...
John Froines – From Chicago 7 to Work Organization Champion
“…Dr. John Froines was also an environmental and occupational health scientist, deeply committed to improving the health and safety of working people. Our HWC Director, Dr. Peter Schnall, and our Labor Outreach Strategist, David Le Grande, both knew and worked with Dr. Froines. We interviewed them and found out that John was also a great supporter of healthy work organization.”
Women, Work and Stress in a Hybrid World
As we celebrated mothers this Mother’s Day, we realize how important healthy work is to working mothers (the majority of mothers worldwide). When we think about healthy work, we must also think about gender equity, and other inequalities in the labor market including...
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...
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