US Surgeon General Releases New Guidelines For Workplace Mental Health
"On October 20th, 2022 the US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released the Surgeon General’s Framework for Mental Health & Well-Being in the Workplace. These recommendations are intended to provide employers with guidance on how best to support the psychological health and overall well-being of their workers.
Surgeon General’s Framework
Protection from Harm
Creating the conditions for physical and psychological safety is a critical foundation for ensuring mental health and well-being in the workplace. In order to promote practices that better assure protection from harm, workplaces can:
- Prioritize workplace physical and psychological safety
- Enable adequate rest
- Normalize and support focusing on mental health
- Operationalize Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) norms, policies, and programs
Connection and Community
Fostering positive social interaction and relationships in the workplace supports worker well-being. In order to promote practices that better assure connection and community, workplaces can:
- Create cultures of inclusion and belonging
- Cultivate trusted relationships
- Foster collaboration and teamwork
Work-Life Harmony
Professional and personal roles can create work and non-work conflicts. In order to promote practices that better assure work-life harmony, workplaces can:
- Provide more autonomy over how work is done
- Make schedules as flexible and predictable as possible
- Increase access to paid leave
- Respect boundaries between work and non-work time
Opportunities for Growth
When organizations create more opportunities for workers to accomplish goals based on their skills and growth, workers become more optimistic about their abilities and more enthusiastic about contributing to the organization. In order to promote practices that better assure opportunities for growth, workplaces can:
- Offer quality training, education, and mentoring
- Foster clear, equitable pathways for career advancement
- Ensure relevant, reciprocal feedback
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Reflection:
What are some ways we could preserve our mental health at work?
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@comfortableNight4463
Once again trying to Fix " perceived" items with meaningless one size fits all text or diversity posters ..... creates DIVISION not inclusion ......
........look through the items in article
- Provide more autonomy over how work is done- work often has one goal not do it however you feel ... no Standard or policy ...
- Make schedules as flexible and predictable as possible - how is one flexible AND predicable as possible
- These are just a few of contradictions in article and frankly many a workplace is finding that resentment and special treatment for some creates more of a hostile work place with more IMO backstabbing and less collaboration then ever. In fact giving special treatment to some group based on some assumed bias creates issues with others and creates more mental issues then ever.