{"id":479,"date":"2017-03-29T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=479"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:55:44","slug":"work-related-suicides-work-bad-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/03\/29\/work-related-suicides-work-bad-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-Related Suicides: When work is so bad that you kill yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What can we say about working conditions when work becomes so bad that people kill themselves?<\/p>\n

Leeds University Research Sarah Waters published an article in Great Britain’s\u00a0Hazards Magazine<\/a> reviewing how different countries address workplace suicide and how little is known about the phenomenon:<\/p>\n

Studies in the United States<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, France<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, China<\/a>, India<\/a> and Taiwan<\/a> point to a steep rise in work suicides. Researchers have linked these suicides to a generalised deterioration of working conditions, including unmanageable workloads and increased job insecurity.<\/p>\n

Despite evidence of a comparable rise in the UK<\/a>, workplace suicide remains a largely hidden phenomenon that is unrecognised in legislation, absent from official statistics, overlooked by the authorities and widely misunderstood.1<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

According to the \u00a0US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 282 workplace suicides occurred in 2013, the highest number recorded since the CFOI series began in 1992. That number stayed about the same in 2014, dropping 18% to 229 in 2015. The BLS published a recent study of workplace suicide <\/a>in the United States. They note that it is extremely challenging determining whether suicides are workplace related. That study concluded that workplace suicide is a relatively small, but growing, occupational concern, and had some interesting conclusions:<\/p>\n