Overview
The workplace is arguably the most cross-cutting system in suicide prevention. Just about everyone who dies by suicide or attempts suicide was working, was recently working, or has a close friend or family member who is working. Thus, just like we promote CPR training at our job sites to save lives, we should also consider on-going, skill developing suicide prevention training programs. In this presentation I interview Gabriela Malafaia, a leader in People’s Management in the oil and gas industry. We discuss the many reasons why workplace suicide prevention training is the right thing to do and list several best practices to leverage a tiered approach. Sharing a number of case studies, we conclude that successful training initiatives not only improve the confidence and competence of a workforce dedicated to making suicide prevention a health and safety priority, impactful training actually helps drive a caring culture.
About Gabriela Malafaia
Gabriela Malafaia is a psychologist who has been working in the oil and gas industry for the past 9 years. Her main field of activity is workers health, especially focused in mental health in the workplace. She has a postgraduate degree in an expert in Workers’ Health (UFF, Brazil) and she is a mental health advocate with great expertise in employee assistance programs, workplace training, organizational psychology, mental health promotion and suicide prevention, intervention and postvention activities.
Show Notes
Suicide Death Rates in Extraction Industry (2020): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-suicide-workplace/mining-extraction-industries-still-have-highest-u-s-suicide-rate-idUSKBN2082L3
CDC Report on Suicide and Industry/Occupation (2020): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6903a1.htm
CDC Report (VIDEO): https://youtu.be/iBERGhXDTzs
Thomas Joiner’s model of suicide risk: https://workplacesuicideprevention.com/understanding-suicide/
[USA] National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention: https://workplacesuicideprevention.com/
How Training Helps Drive a High-Performing Culture: https://trainingmag.com/trgmag-article/if-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-key-how-can-training-help/
VIDEO: Stratified Training Program in the Workplace: https://youtu.be/18xvYtqzDm0
FREE GUIDE: How to Move from Awareness to Action -- 23 Characteristics that Make Trainings Great: https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/s/20170911-Guidebook-on-Training-Programs-email.pdf
Adoecimento mental e trabalho: a concessão de benefícios por incapacidade relacionados a transtornos mentais e comportamentais entre 2012-2016.
Mental illness and work: the award of disability benefits due to mental illness between 2012-2016
http://sa.previdencia.gov.br/site/2017/04/1%C2%BA-boletim-quadrimestral.pdf
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