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HRDive
The swell of employee wellness programs is an all-around good thing: healthy workers are happier and more productive, and higher productivity means greater revenue returns for employers. Wellness programs help employees build stamina, tone up, slim down, even learn to manage stress. And thanks to technology, they can track their progress and challenge coworkers to digital games. After a strenuous work-out, an employee can get off a treadmill, return to the office and put in the best sales day of her career. But can a treadmill raise the productivity of a worker suffering from depression, drug or alcohol addiction, or anxiety?
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HRDive
While this study is based in Canada, it reflects trends happening in the U.S. as well. Protecting psychological health in the workplace has emerged as a key business objective.
In the U.S., employers are particularly looking at emotional well-being as an important component of their workplace wellness programs. As the technology has improved, so have the number of offerings set to help employers manage behavioral health.
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National Traffic Law Center
Over the course of the last decade,
drug-impaired driving has
become as significant a threat
to public safety as alcohol-impaired
driving on American
roadways. During a 14-month
period in 1990 and 1991, 17.8 percent of
fatally-injured drivers from seven states tested
positive for drugs. This
percentage has increased dramatically since that
time. In 2005, 28 percent of fatally injured drivers
with known test results were positive for the
presence of drugs and that number rose to 33 percent
in 2009. By 2013, 40 percent of fatally injured
drivers with known test results were
found to be positive for drugs.
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The Daily Herald
Henry Soto first learned he'd been drafted into the fight while on a business trip in British Columbia.
It was 2008. The Woodinville-area man had spent much of two years navigating the twisting path of vendor jobs and serial interviews often required to land a coveted full-time position with Microsoft Corp. Now, he was facing another reality of working for the tech giant. The message said he'd been assigned new duties under one of the company's periodic "reorgs."
Soto would join the newly created Online Safety team. He'd focus on "terms of use" violations, helping his employer make sure its software and systems were being properly used by customers.
Only later did he understand what the job entailed.
He found himself seated in a cubicle, spending every work day closely scrutinizing toxic digital content.
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Forbes
The death of a loved one is obviously devastating. But when an employee is dealing with a loss, the right response from an employer can not only help that employee better cope, but also maintain morale across the organization, and thus keep productivity up.
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The National Law Review
A final rule published on Jan. 18 implements the first major revisions to the federal regulations governing the confidentiality of substance-use disorder patient records (Part 2) since 1987. It finalizes a proposal from last February to modernize the regulations in light of the significant changes in the health care delivery system. On the same day, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, also issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to request comments on the disclosure of Part 2 covered data by contractors, subcontractors, and legal representatives for purposes of carrying out payment, healthcare operations, and other healthcare related activities.
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SHP Online
Mental health can affect how we feel, think and behave and, in some cases, seriously limit our ability to cope with relationships, work and life in general.
In the workplace, mental health issues can have a serious impact on both the morale of employees, those suffering from mental health issues and their colleagues who then pick up the additional workload.
It can also impact an organization's productivity and profitability through overtime costs, recruitment of temporary or permanent cover — absence from work due to mental health issues is thought to cost the U.K. economy £26 billion per year.
Mental health issues can appear as the result of experiences in both our personal and working lives, or like a physical illness, can just happen.
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Security Info Watch
On Dec. 7, 2016, the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a request for information in support of a new standard on workplace violence in the healthcare and social assistance settings. Currently, the agency does not have a specific standard that regulates how employers must protect employees from workplace violence. Rather, OSHA currently addresses workplace violence hazards through the general duty clause, under which the agency requires employers to take affirmative steps to protect their employees from "recognized hazards."
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Law Officer
There continues to be some dispute surrounding the issues of law enforcement mental health and police suicides. Too many departments dismiss mental health programs as unnecessary and too expensive yet, on the other hand, some authors describe law enforcement suicides as "epidemic" and growing exponentially in number, with misleading figures as high as 400 and 500 per year. Myths and misunderstandings abound over the causes of suicides and over general issues like the impacts of divorce and substance abuse in police work. A great deal of research remains to be done.
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The Globe and Mail
When Morneau Shepell vice-president Paula Allen set out to research the link between organizational change and absenteeism, she thought the big events — mergers, downsizings, restructurings — might have the most profound impact on employees. Instead, she discovered that more commonplace events such as job redesign can lead to even greater distress.
The human resources consulting firm reported that while an accelerated pace of change is "the new normal" in most Canadian workplaces, it is also a major source of anxiety — to the point that 46 percent of 1,018 Canadian employees recently surveyed by the firm had taken time off work or noticed other employees booking off sick following workplace changes.
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