What’s New
The Healthy Work Campaign (HWC) is delighted to share our latest developments, including blog posts, team events, healthy work (Medium) articles, newsletters, news coverage and new website content. (Be sure to scroll down to access all six sections.)
Blog
What Healthy Work Could Mean for Retail Workers this Holiday Season
This holiday season, the Healthy Work Campaign urges employers and the public to have consideration and to express gratitude for the many workers whose work becomes highly demanding and stressful during the holidays. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in...
News
2-9-24 – Healthy Work Campaign Case Studies on Bus Drivers Featured in Heigh Ho Blog & Podcast
On February 8th, Bob Merberg (a friend of the Healthy Work Campaign) published “Steering Thru Stress: What Bus Drivers’ Working Lives Teach Us About Wellbeing” (a “Heigh Ho” blog post and podcast episode).
This blog and podcast features:
- Work Organization, Health, and Obesity in Urban Transit Operators (Dobson, Choi & Schnall) – a qualitative study of bus drivers in Southern California
- Programs and policies to reduce work stress among bus drivers in the United States and Canada (bus driver case study #1) – one of our case studies on our Healthy Work Strategies page (written by Landsbergis, et al)
Visit our Healthy Work Strategies page to access more case studies with solutions via Workplace research studies and programs to reduce work stressors, Labor-Management Contracts, Laws and Regulations, and more.
Articles
The Workplace Causes Loneliness
by Marnie Dobson Zimmerman, PhD & Peter Schnall, MD MPH*
Half of adults in the United States experience loneliness, and it was increasing even before the pandemic’s social isolation. Social relationships and adequate social support are key social determinants of health. Loneliness not only has consequences for mental health, contributing to and worsening depression and anxiety, but also to physical health, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke, and dementia. The connection of loneliness to premature death is startling. The impact of being socially disconnected is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, even greater than obesity and physical inactivity. COVID exacerbated social disconnection and loneliness, making an already alarming mental health crisis even worse…
Events
Want to make work safer, healthier & more equitable?
Today & tomorrow (9am-3pm PT), our colleagues at Cal Labor Lab* are hosting their annual virtual conference: “Modern Work and Workers’ Voices.” https://calaborlab.ucsf.edu/2024-annual-conference
HWC Director Marnie Dobson Zimmerman will present today at 1:45pm PT/4:45pm PT as part of the Working in Healthcare Panel Discussion. She is prepared to share her insights and solutions from administering the Healthy Work Survey to a large public health agency in California.
Distinguished speakers from the U.S. Department of Labor, California Labor Federation, UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program, UCLA, California State Assembly, National Nurses United, other universities and labor groups, and more will participate.
RSVP here. Participants can gain continuing education credits from attending.
*A National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Center for Total Worker Health®
Newest Web Content
Team Roles, Employers page, Media, etc. – July 2023
Interested in what we’ve been up to since our last post? In late July, we updated these healthywork.org pages as follows:
- Tools for Individuals – adding content on The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
- Employers – adding the new Business Case for Healthy Work video
- Business Costs – adding the Business Case for Healthy Work video
- Media – also adding the Business Case video, as well as several other videos we published on YouTube and promoted on social media this year
- Mission – Team section – migrating some of our team members to our Special Thanks section, including our longtime web developer, Amy Turner. We couldn’t have gotten this far without her!
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