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October 11, 2024

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Seminar

Location
HSPH, Kresge 502
677 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115 United States

Time

1:10 pm 1:50 pm

Event Type

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:

  • define work-related suicide from an occupational health and safety perspective;
  • discuss the case investigation-based evidence for potential work-related causes of suicide;
  • discuss the epidemiologic evidence for potential work-related causes of suicide;
  • list six categories of potential work-related causes of suicide; and
  • describe the strengths and limitations of current workplace suicide prevention policy and practice.

See also: LaMontagne AD, Aberg M, Blomqvist S, et al (2024): Work & suicide: Evolving understandings of etiology & intervention. American J
Industr Med 67(8):679-695.


Funded by NIOSH Grant T42 OH008416

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