Healthy Work Blog
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...
MassCOSH COVID-19 Health and Safety Guide for Essential Workers
The Massachusetts Coaltion for Occupational Safety and Health is maintaining "Health and Safety Protections and How to Make Them Happen" for essential workers. Although there are feedback links, this is a read-only Google doc. This guide...
High levels of work stress among Bus Drivers
Bus Drivers experience high levels of work stress particularly when driving in crowded urban areas. The Center for Social Epidemiology has been working for the past 6 years with the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation and the bus driver union SMART as...
New Springer publication from CSE researchers on consequences of work stressors
My colleagues Marnie Dobson, Ellen Rosskam, Paul Landsbergis and I are pleased to see our recent paper: "Work-Related Burden of Absenteeism, Presenteeism, and Disability: An Epidemiologic and Economic Perspective" included in Springer's Handbook of Disability, Work...
Job Posting (revised Feb 10 2020)
Job Posting (revised Feb 10 2020) Part-time Outreach Coordinator Needed for the Healthy Work Campaign @Center for Social Epidemiology and the Healthy Work Campaign The Center for Social Epidemiology (CSE) is a small, nonprofit organization located in Los Angeles, CA...
Healthy Work Survey nears completion
After two years of work our new workplace survey (titled Healthy Work Survey) intended to allow individual, workplaces and groups to assess their workplace stressors and their impact on one's health is nearing completion. A draft has been circulated for comments and...
Future directions needed for California Occupational Health Indicators
The State of California issued its annual report on Occupational Health Exposures at the workplace for 2019. The excellent report focuses on a # of occupational exposures but has no information on occupational psychosocial work hazards. It is very important that...
New Case Histories re Bus Driver Interventions now available
Summaries of interventions to reduce job stress among urban bus drivers in Copenhagen and Stockholm are now available on our Healthywork.org website. The case histories describe efforts to identify various sources of stress bus drivers are exposed to while driving and...
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