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 The Employee Assistance Professionals Association Board of Directors, Employee Assistance Certification Commission and the staff of EAPA offers best wishes for the coming holiday seasons to our members, CEAPs, partners and EA professionals everywhere! As we reflect on the past year, we list in reverse chronological order the 20 most popular EAP NewsBrief articles of 2018, Part 1. Regular publication of the Newsbrief will resume Tuesday, Jan. 8. Happy Holidays!
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The National Law Review
Many healthcare workers experience violence in the workplace often resulting from violent behavior by their patients, clients and/or residents. What can healthcare organizations do to improve safety and minimize the risk of workplace violence?
In an effort to help healthcare organizations better prevent and address violence in the workplace, The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare, released a Sentinel Event Alert outlining the seven steps healthcare organizations should take to prevent workplace violence.
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Human Resource Executive Online
There are many reasons for employers to promote and enforce a drug-free workplace policy and to engage in drug testing of employees. Some employers are mandated by law to have drug testing programs. Many employers choose to drug test employees because of safety-sensitive positions, reductions in rates for workers’ compensation insurance or the employers simply want to ensure that their employees are not impaired.
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Addiction Now
The Food and Drug Administration has announced it will expand medication assisted treatment to help provide addiction recovery treatment to as many Americans as possible, including permitting pharmaceutical companies to market medications which temper but do not completely eradicate substance cravings.
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Lexology
"Zero tolerance" is too blunt an instrument, and it may even increase bad behavior.
Chai Feldblum, a Democratic Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was quoted recently as saying that "zero tolerance" policies can actually make it harder for employers to fight workplace harassment.
According to Feldblum, a zero tolerance policy "will not only be correctly perceived as an unfair system, but it might also chill reporting. A lot of people don't want their co-worker to be fired, they just want the conduct to stop."
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Harvard Business Review
According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express, Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016. And while many workplace health programs for business travel provide immunizations, information about avoiding food-borne illness, and alerts about civil or political unrest, few focus on a more a common threat to health: the stress, sleep interruption, unhealthy eating and drinking and lack of exercise that are common side effects of being on the road. Over the long-term, these issues can add up to chronic disease risks.
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TechCrunch
From July 17: In recent months, we’ve seen more and more funding flowing into tools for mental wellness — whether that’s AI-driven tools to help patients find help to meditation apps — and it seems like that trend is starting to pick up even more steam as smaller companies are grabbing the attention of investors.
There’s another one picking up funding today in Spring Health, a platform for smaller companies to help their employees get more access to mental health treatment.
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EmployerLINC
From Feb. 27: There is a needed focus on mental health issues these days. We see it on social media as well as in the news. And, as a nation, we are hopefully moving to a place were individuals can get the help they need without any stigma attached. This is true in the employment context as well. Even though many employers offer benefits such as employee assistant programs that allow employees to access mental health services, mental health is still a difficult issue to address. It becomes even more difficult in the workplace. This is particularly true when there are complaints about an employee’s behavior or performance that suggest a potential mental health issue, but an employee either does not believe they need treatment or refuses to get it.
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Science Alert
From Feb. 13: From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything. It is even noticeable in the way you speak and express yourself in writing.
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Forbes
From Nov. 20: It’s no secret the larger the business the slower the movement. As the more laid back generation makes its final exit and the digital-driven generation takes the wheel, businesses are having to reframe their workplace policies to meet the needs of their new workers. The greatest obstacle businesses face is releasing the grip on outdated workplace formalities and creating policies that support the new generation.
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Stanford Business
From March 27: Jeffrey Pfeffer has an ambitious aspiration for his latest book. “I want this to be the Silent Spring of workplace health,” says Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. “We are harming both company performance and individual well-being, and this needs to be the clarion call for us to stop. There is too much damage being done.”
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