CALIFORNIA WORK & HEALTH STUDY GROUP XX: JUNE 1st, 2007

The 20th meeting of the California Work & Health Study Group was held on Friday, June 1st at UCLA from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM in Room 58-261B of the Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Dr. Paul Landsbergis discussed interventions to improve work organization and reduce the risk of stress-related injury and illness, including work site efforts as well as legislation and regulation. He also presented results from a new review of work stress interventions that will be published shortly in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Dr. Leslie Hammer updated us on her current NIOSH funded work on research into work/family conflicts with a focus on planned interventions.

In addition, Dr. Linda Delp discussed UCLA LOSH activities as well as her recently completed PhD thesis research which investigated job stressors and satisfaction among home care workers in California's In-Home Supportive Services Program.

Dr. Peter Schnall discussed the progress on the upcoming book to be published by Baywood Press entitled "Healthy Work".