Healthy Work Blog
Letter to the editor re air travel published by JAMA
When Passengers Remove Masks Flying Remains a Risk Published Oct 1 Peter Schnall, Professor of Medicine | U of California at Irvine Airlines continue to make progress in improving the safety of passengers from contacting and contracting Covid-19. The filtered air in...
CDC Reverses Itself Once Again. They are STILL WRONG.
The CDC has reversed itself once again about the transmissibility of the COVID-19 virus. On their website — updated yesterday — they said “A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website. CDC is...
Workplace conditions that are contributing to the Covid-19 epidemic
Workplace conditions for essential workers typically have three characteristics that contribute to increased risk of exposure to the Covid-19 virus and, once infected, more severe illness:Enclosed spacesHigh population densityPersistent work stressors contribute to...
Healthy Work this Labor Day!
On this Labor Day weekend, we have to recognize the toll this pandemic has taken on the lives of so many workers. Essential workers, including bus drivers, grocery workers, food processing/meat-packing workers, health care workers and many others have been risking...
New Healthy Work Strategies for urban bus drivers
Urban bus driving is a highly stressful occupation. Even now during Covid-19 these essential workers are on the front lines, risking exposure helping to transport people where they need to be. In the best of times, bus drivers need to be highly vigilant to avoid...
Air Travel and the Pandemic: an Epidemiologist’s Perspective
Our colleague and former frequent flyer Peter Schnall posted a new article to Medium: Air Travel and the Pandemic: an Epidemiologist’s Perspective • an epidemiologist walks into an airplane. We invite you to read and comment, here (below) or there....
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...