October 11
OSH Seminar – Anthony D. LaMontagne, ScD, Work Health and Wellbeing Professor
Work and Suicide: Evolving Understandings of Etiology and Intervention
Presenter: Anthony D. LaMontagne, ScD (HSPH ’94), Professor, Work Health and Wellbeing, Institute for Health Transformation and School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to 1) define work-related suicide from an occupational health and safety perspective; 2) discuss the case investigation-based evidence for potential work-related causes of suicide; 3) discuss the epidemiologic evidence for potential work-related causes of suicide; 4) list six categories of potential work-related causes of suicide; and to 5) describe the strengths and limitations of current workplace suicide prevention policy and practice.