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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EA Industry Spotlight is a round up of bit-sized articles covering our field. This July, we include news of a brand new employee benefit, a challenge to a new OSHA standard for employers, and expansion of the Workplace Outcomes Suite endorsed by EAPA to measure the effectiveness of CIR. And there's more.
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Human Resource Executive Online
Question: Can we require our employees to use an employee-assistance program? We have an employee who made a physical threat against her supervisor to a member of HR. We want to make that employee consult with a therapist at an EAP as a condition for that employee being able to return to work, as we are concerned that she may have emotional problems. Are we allowed to require that this or any other employee consult with an EAP as a condition for maintaining his or her job? Are there any laws that we risk breaking if we do this?
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA is seeking nominations for positions on the EAPA Board of Directors for the 2016-2018 term of service. EAPA members will be electing a new President Elect, a Secretary-Treasurer, and seven At Large Directors (four U.S. based, three non-U.S. based). At least one At Large Director residing in the U.S. must be a member of a labor union and work in a labor employee assistance program. The Nomination Period began on Thursday, May 5, and will remain open through Aug. 2. Online voting will take place from Aug. 25 - Sept. 23. (You will need your EAPA member login to access this content. If you have not yet created an EAPA member website account, please click here.)
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Research has shown that poor financial behaviors - and financial stress - can significantly impact an employee’s performance at work. Learn how an AFC© professional can help reduce financial stress by providing employees with personalized education and guidance to help them build a firm financial foundation to effectively achieve their goals.
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Claims Journal
Several recent manmade events, including the attack at Pulse nightclub in Florida and the Belgium airport terrorist bombing, highlight the vulnerability of the workplace. Workplace violence costs employers over $120 billion a year, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. As the chance of an onsite attack rises for employers, the focus on mitigation is increasing.
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Health Data Management
For 1 in 4 Americans living with mental illness — and millions more with a condition that falls under the behavioral health umbrella — proper diagnosis and treatment are critical to physical and mental health outcomes. Yet, only half of those patients will receive care for their illness.
Mindyra, a Darien, Con.-based technology company, recently launched a platform to connect patients with specialists in their area, offer providers a comprehensive diagnostic assessment test and show how the patient is progressing.
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The Washington Post
President Barack Obama has committed to sign the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which includes among its provisions new policies to reduce inappropriate prescribing of prescription opioids such as Oxycontin and Vicodin. Given the ongoing epidemic of addiction and death caused by opioid painkillers, this seems like sensible public-health policy, but some critics charge that tighter prescribing rules simply cause prescription opioid users to switch to heroin, thereby feeding a second opioid epidemic. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine recently published the first systematic analysis of this terrifying possibility.
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The Wall Street Journal
Companies want employees to seek mental-health treatment when needed, so they are turning to a tool already in workers' pockets: their smartphones.
As employers seek to reduce the costs of untreated mental illness among staffers, more companies are trying mobile apps that help workers easily find and receive treatment. Some apps mine data about employees' phone usage, or medical and pharmaceutical claims, to determine who might be in need of care. Others allow workers to text and video chat with therapists — in what are being called "telemental" health services.
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Employee Benefits
The Mental resilience survey 2016, which polled 2,000 working adults across the U.K., also found that 53 perent of respondents who have taken time off work due to mental health issues feel uncomfortable speaking to their line manager about the real reason for their absence.
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EHS Today
Opioid dependency is on the rise in the United States, whether it is prescription medications or illegal substances such as heroin. Companies and safety managers can combat substance abuse in the workplace with an Employee Assistance Program targeting both alcohol and drug dependency on the job. Prescription opioid sales in the United States quadrupled from 1999 to 2014 and, since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137 percent, including a 200 percent increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids including pain relievers and heroin, according to the CDC.
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Business 2 Community
More employers are investing in workplace wellness, but many employees aren't participating. And when employees don't participate, the programs have no value.
According to The State of Workplace Well-Being survey by my company, Limeade, 53 percent of organizations said participation is the biggest challenge to successful wellness programs. Other problem areas? Sustaining active involvement in the program and developing long-term health habits.
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