Crisis Response: The Importance of Suicide Postvention in the Workplace (Video)
An occurrence of suicide within the workplace can evoke a spectrum of questions and emotions among co-workers. It is essential for management to navigate the crisis response task sensitively while ensuring the continuity of business operations. In this video, Workplace Suicide Prevention has brought together Jeff Gorter (MSW, LMSW) and Joanne Harpel (MPhil, JD, CT) to give a qualitative perspective on suicide in the workplace, considerations for responding to suicide in the workplace, and understanding the emotional impact of co-workers to suicide in the workplace.
Approximately 80% of all people who die by suicide are of working age (18-65) making the workplace the most cross-cutting system for suicide prevention, intervention and crisis response.
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