The Workplace and Suicide: Occupational Health and Suicide Recognition, Prevention

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This exclusive SOM webinar will cover:

-     The current issue of suicide: Introduction to Suicide in Society

-     The role of the workplace in recognition and prevention: Can support through work make a difference?

-     Occupational Health and Suicide Prevention: Access, Engagement, and Support.

-     Case Study: Nursing and Suicide – Preventable deaths within a crisis stricken workforce.

Speaker Bio: Dr Simon Harold Walker is a Research Associate, specialising in Suicide and Mental Health, within the Healthy Working Lives Group at the University of Glasgow.  After training first as a Military Historian, Simon turned to Suicidology and has since combined the two as a passion culminating in two books War Bodies (2020) and the upcoming Silent Voices (2024) and articles within academia and the media including for Time Magazine and the Independent.  Moving into Occupational Health, Simon is now working on a early stage project focused on Nursing Suicide Recognition and Prevention Research.  Simon is also the Co-Founder of the Occupational Health Suicide Prevention and Research Network – www.OHSPR.network  Personal Website: www.simonhwalker.co.uk , Twitter: @drsiwalker

Chair: Prof. Anne Harriss

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