Action on work suicide risks would have 'large impacts'
A new paper by Australian and French researchers has found work factors including poor job insecurity and job control are strongly linked to higher suicide risks. The paper, published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, says a range of work factors lead people to contemplate and attempt suicide and to kill themselves.
"Our review included 22 independent studies, which examined suicide ideation, suicide attempt and death by suicide. The studies included a wide range of sample types (eg. occupation specific vs working population based) and were set in a diverse range of countries," it notes. "Across this broad range of studies, results of this review suggest that exposure to various psychosocial job stressors was associated with elevated risk of suicide ideation, attempts and death. Job insecurity was associated with higher odds of suicide ideation, while job control appeared to be more of a risk for suicide attempt and death." The paper concludes "it is clear that job stressors are associated with increased risk of suicide. Thus, job stress prevention and control should be a key component of workplace as well as some other suicide prevention strategies. Furthermore, as poor psychosocial working conditions are highly prevalent, addressing these could have large population impacts in terms of reductions in suicidality."
Read more: A Milner, K Witt, AD LaMontagne, Isabelle Niedhammer. Psychosocial job stressors and suicidality: a meta-analysis and systematic review [Full article], Occupational and Environmental Medicine, volume 75, pages 245-253, 2018. Related commentary: Marianna Virtanen. Psychosocial job stressors and suicidality: can stress at work lead to suicide? [abstract], Occupational and Environmental Medicine, volume 75, pages 243-244, 2018.
More on work and suicides. Work and suicide: A TUC guide to prevention for trade union activists, January 2018. Work and suicide prevention checklist, Hazards, number 141, 2018. Source: Risks 843
Aberta consulta pública para projeto de legislação que trata da saúde mental de trabalhadores
Draft code of practice for mentally healthy workplaces for FIFO (fly-in, fly-out) workers
A draft code of practice targeting FIFO mental health is now open for public comment until 19 April.
The draft code to help promote and maintain mentally healthy workplaces for fly-in fly-out workers has been released by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS).
The draft code provides guidance on the risk management approach to identifying and addressing workplace risks that can affect the mental health of workers.
To access the draft code and provide comment, go to the DMIRS website.
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