The idea behind the initiative is to make porn production houses safer and healthier workplace environments for performers by insisting on safeguards against disease or infection, in turn hoping to set an example for the general public.
Our goal is to transform the office into a healthy, happy and supportive workplace environment.
By reducing the impact or eliminating workplace bullying, organizations have a better chance to maintain healthy work environments including happier employees.
The questionnaire includes 9 standards (see Figure 1) with different number of items: commitment (5 items), communication (1 item), education and training (4 items), identification and cessation support (8 items), tobacco control (2 items), environment (4 items), healthy workplace (6 items), health promotion (2 items), and follow-up (2 items).
If you'd like to nominate your organization for a Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award, or to learn how to create a work environment where employees and organizations can thrive, visit the APA Center for Organizational Excellence webpage.
Corporate sustainability has traditionally been much more focused on the physical environment, neglecting the idea that healthy workplace practices, and healthy and engaged employees, are core to a thriving, sustainable organization.
Leigh Stringer's upcoming book, The Healthy Workplace (AMACOM, July 2016), provides research on how changing certain behaviors and modifying work environments can improve employees' sleep, nutritional choices, and mental focus, and how these changes can yield positive results, contributing to a business's bottom line.
A healthy worker effect, namely over-representation of workers who are more resistant to the workplace environment is always a potential shortcoming in a cross-sectional study or more generally any epidemiologic study that does not examine both current workers and workers who have left the industry, or retired.
In a healthy workplace, being emotionally engaged is great, but when you can't escape a disrespectful environment, practicing the fine art of indifference and detachment can help you endure the onslaught.
Ask questions about things you know this employer's good for - tell them that you're looking for a better working environment if it seems like a casual workplace, or if you see a plaque for "Best psychologically healthy workplace".
