October 11
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Seminar
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