Workplace

A Manager’s Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace: 10 Action Steps for Dealing with the Aftermath of Suicide

This guide provides workplace leaders with clear action steps for suicide postvention, including immediate, short-term, and long-term responses to help employees cope with the aftermath of the traumatic event.

Preventing Suicide At Work – World Health Organization

Work that is interesting and fulfilling is good for mental health, but a negative working environment or work-related stressors can lead to physical and mental health problems. Visit this quick guide for signs to look at for at work, what you can do if you are worried about a colleague, what you can do as an employer or manager, and more!

Suicide Prevention – 5 Things You Should Know

Suicide is a leading cause of death among working age adults in the United States. It deeply impacts workers, families, and communities. Fortunately, like other workplace fatalities, suicides can be prevented. This information sheet outlines 5 things to know about preventing suicide.

The Workplace and Suicide Prevention

The workplace is a major part of the lives of most Canadians. Many of us spend upwards of 60% of our waking hours at work. Therefore, when a colleague dies by suicide the emotional and financial costs are enormous not only to family members, but to co-workers and the organization itself. Workplaces need to have measures in place to inform and educate about suicide. It is an issue that cannot be ignored. This resource is a collection of facts, figures, and best preventative practices regarding suicide in the workplace.

Comprehensive Blueprint for Workplace Suicide Prevention

The goal of the Comprehensive Blueprint for Workplace Suicide Prevention is to promote mental health and suicide prevention. Use the pages and resources by clicking on the link to get started.

Responding to Suicide Risk in the Workplace: A Guide for People Professionals

Suicidal thoughts are far more common than many people think, but there can be extensive stigma in talking about suicide. Too few employers have frameworks that encourage the kind of climate where people can talk to someone about suicide and find ways to seek help. Most managers and employees have never received education or training to deal with a situation where someone discloses suicidal feelings. This guide aims to address that gap by providing practical advice and guidance on how organizations can educate their workforce and make it easier to open up and talk about suicide.

Suicide Prevention in the Workplace

Increased stress, anxiety and depression are all side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. For some people, this translates to feelings of hopelessness, despair, or even suicidal thoughts. We need to have meaningful conversations in the workplace about suicide, to provide support and resources, and to bring hope to someone who may be struggling with the thought of suicide. Use this guide to navigate those difficult conversations. It offers information for your own mental health and for employers, managers, and co-workers, along with tips for those who work with the public. Just talking about suicide is one of the best ways to prevent it.

Work Place Safety Planning

Safety plans should be developed in all cases of domestic violence. This word document provides a template for a safety plan, as well as provides information on domestic abuse and some suggestions that might be helpful. This word document can be downloaded and saved to your device.

Suicide Prevention Resource Center – Workplaces

People often spend a large portion of their day at a workplace and, in doing so, get to know other employees over time. As a result, they may be in a good position to notice changes in behaviour that could suggest risk for suicide or other mental health problems. Visit this website to learn more about why it is essential to address suicide prevention at work, how employers can take action, and to find additional resources and supports.

Suicide Prevention – Health and Safety Executive

Employers have a duty of care to workers and to ensuring their health, safety and welfare. Health and Safety Executive promotes action that prevents or tackles any risks to worker’s physical and mental health, for example due to work-related stress. Check out their website for more information.

Suicide Prevention & Response: New Tools Help Employers Take Action

Suicide prevention is the ultimate goal of all the tools we share at the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health. We hope that the use of these tools and resources will better equip you to help prevent suicides and to better care for those dealing with suicide loss.

Are Young Men Getting the Message? Age Differences in Suicide Prevention Literacy among Male Construction Workers

Suicide is a leading cause of death among young men. Help-seeking is known to be poor among this group, and little is known about what interventions are most successful in improving suicide prevention literacy among young men. This research aims to examine: (1) age differences in beliefs related to suicide prevention literacy and attitudes to the workplace in addressing mental health among male construction workers; (2) age differences in response to a workplace suicide prevention program. Results indicate that while suicide prevention literacy may be lower among young men, this group show amenability to changing beliefs. There were some indications that young men have a greater propensity to regard the workplace as having a role in reducing suicide rates and addressing mental health, highlighting opportunity for workplace interventions.

Effective Elements for Workplace Responses to Critical Incidents and Suicide: A Rapid Review

Despite high rates of critical incidents in working class occupations, there is a significant gap in the understanding of responses to these events. In this study, the authors aimed to inform a response training module by synthesizing the key elements of pre-, during- and post-incident responses to critical incidents and suicide in the workplace. This review identified studies on responses to critical incidents or suicide deaths in the workplace published between January 2015 and June 2020.

Work‐Related Suicide: Evolving Understandings of Etiology & Intervention

Previously published analyses of suicide case investigations suggest that work or working conditions contribute to 10%–13% of suicide deaths. Yet, the way in which work may increase suicide risk is an underdeveloped area of epidemiologic research. In this article, the authors propose a definition of work related suicide from an occupational health and safety perspective, and review the case investigation based and epidemiologic evidence on work‐related causes of suicide. They conclude that a stronger emphasis on improving working conditions will be required for workplace suicide prevention to reach its full preventive potential.