Exploring Workplace Training Interventions Addressing Workplace Stress and Addiction

May 14-16, 2019
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Purpose of the Awardee Meeting

The semi-annual WTP Awardee Meeting brought awardees together to provide program updates, exchange information regarding training, and discover new areas of interest to awardees.

Purpose and Scope of the Workshop

Workplace stress, fatigue, and addiction are associated with increased occupational injury and illness. Negative health effects range from high blood pressure, obesity, burnout, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, addiction, and death. The organization of work, inadequate staffing, long hours, hierarchical management styles, and lack of essential health and safety standards, such as an ergonomics standard, are some key factors. Learn about interventions, training initiatives, and best practices in the U.S. and internationally.

Agendas

• Awardee Meeting Agenda (169KB) 
• Workshop Agenda (348KB) 

Workshop Report

•   Workshop Report (6MB) 

Presentations

Awardee Meeting: 

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Time	Topic
1:00 p.m.	Welcome/NIEHS Update (7MB)  Joseph "Chip" Hughes, Jr., Sharon Beard, Demia Wright, Kathy Almark, Jim Remington and Lisa Edwards, NIEHS
2:00 p.m.	NIEHS National Clearinghouse Update (1MB)  Deborah Weinstock, National Clearinghouse/MDB, Inc.
2:30 p.m.	Sharing Successes and Accomplishments of the Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP) (387KB)  Moderator:Sharon Beard, NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP) Supporting New Environmental Career Pipelines in the Los Angeles Region (559KB)  Kevin Riley, Ph.D., Western Region Universities Consortium Co-Principal Investigator (PI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, and Yodit Semu, ECWT Program Coordinator, UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program Responding to Training Needs in a Continuing Disaster Environment (6MB)  Beverly Wright, Ph.D., Executive Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, and Co-PI, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Consortium BuildingWorks Pre-Apprenticeship Training (2MB)  Joan Staunton, Grants Manager/Director of Pre-Apprenticeship Program, New York City District Council of Carpenters Training Center, New Jersey/New York Consortium CPWR ECWTP - Preparing Community Residents for Careers in Construction (1MB)  Steve Surtees, ECWTP Director, CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training OAI Chicago ECWTP Accomplishments (1MB)  Montgomery Proffit, Program Manager, OAI, Inc. Community Health Workers: A Critical Kind of Defense against Toxic Exposures in Vulnerable Communities (1MB)  Maiber Solarte, Community Health Worker Training Coordinator, Make the Road New York Partner, Tony Mazzocchi Center for Health, Safety, and Environmental Education
4:00 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions Business Official Meeting (1MB)  Lisa Edwards, NIEHS Grants Management Branch, and Kathy Ahlmark, NIEHS WTP Program Official Meeting Chip Hughes, Demia Wright and Jim Remington, NIEHS WTP ECWTP Meeting (499KB)  Sharon Beard, NIEHS WTP

Workshop: Tony Mazzocchi Center/WTP Exploring Workplace Training Interventions Addressing Workplace Stress and Addiction

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Time	Topic
9:00 a.m.	Welcome Ashlee Fitch, United Steelworkers (USW) and Joseph “Chip” Hughes, Jr., NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP)
9:15 a.m.	Why This Topic? (2MB)  Ashlee Fitch, (USW) and Chip Hughes, NIEHS WTP
10:15 a.m.	Keynote Address: International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Behaviral Health Program (3MB)  Patrick Morrison, IAFF
11:15 a.m.	Diseases of Despair and the Workplace (2MB)  Cora Roelofs, Sc.D., University of Massachusetts, Lowell
11:35 a.m.	Workplace Stress Moderator: Jim Remington, NIEHS WTP Mental Health Resilience Training for Workers: Results from a Clinical Trial with Hurricane Sandy Disaster Workers Adam Gonzalez, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Impact of Job Stress on Worker Injuries and Illnesses in the Transportation Industry (3MB)  Peter Orris, M.D., University of Illinois Addiction and Recovery Member Assistance Program and Training to Become a Peer Advocate (1MB)  Kyle Zimmer, International Union of Operating Engineers, Local Union 478
1:30 p.m.	Tools to Address Overdose, Stigma, and Suicide Prevention Moderator: Sharon Beard, NIEHS WTP Challenges and Barriers in the Opioid Age: Drug-Free Workplace and "Zero Tolerance" Policies (401KB)  Holly Hinds, CrossPoint Partners Psychosocial Interventions with Environmental Career Worker Training Learners (3MB)  Sean Philips and Shaquita Slater, OAI, Inc. VA's Approach to Suicide Prevention (1MB)  Gloria Workman, Ph.D., Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Veterans Health Administration
2:30 p.m.	Small Group Discussion Questions (404KB)  Facilitator: Deborah Weinstock, National Clearinghouse/MDB, Inc.
3:30 p.m.	Case Studies and Audience Q&A Moderator: Demia Wright, NIEHS WTP Advocacy for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment and Recovery Services Stephanie Campbell, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services How Training on Opioids is Being Implemented at Ford and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Resolution on Opioids (482KB)  Steve Romero, UAW Integrating Resilience Training into Programs: Puerto Rico Case Study Luis Vazquez, International Chemical Workers Union Council

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Time	Topic
9:00 a.m.	Challenges of Getting the Medical Community to Think About Workers: Engaging Community Health Workers on Occupational Stress (10MB)  Amy Leibman, Migrant Clinicians Network
9:30 a.m.	Various Training Development Initiatives Moderator: Donald Elisburg, National Clearinghouse/MDB, Inc. Mental Health is a Union Right Training Arturo Archila, The Labor Institute Draft Opioids and the Workplace: Prevention and Response Curriculum Goal, Objectives, Content, and Activity Review (3MB)  Jonathan Rosen, National Clearinghouse Train-the-Trainer: Opioid Awareness Curriculum (3MB)  Jodi Sugerman-Brozan, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
10:45 a.m.	Facilitated Discussion: Using Training to Move the Prevention Framework Forward (329KB)  Facilitator: Ashlee Fitch, USW