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Inventing Letters Along the Way

STRESS got you when you begin to think that everything is a matter of life and death. For this, Natalie Goldberg explained in her book, Wild Mind (1990): “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”

The International Labor Office (ILO) issued on April 28—in time for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work—a report entitled, “The Emerging Risks and New Patterns of Prevention in a Changing World of Work,” that noted significant changes in the patterns of employment in the recent decades and had a hand in emerging new risks that affect the workforce. These risks include work restructuring, downsizing, subcontracting and outsourcing, all making it harder for workers to achieve balance between healthy life and productive work.

In countries like the Philippines, with populations working in precarious employment status, people accept jobs with low occupational safety and health (OSH) standards, low wages, and poor working conditions.

A study conducted by Michael Hilton and Harvey Whiteford of the University of Queensland School of Population Health in Herston (Australia)—it involved 11,259 employees (60 percent female) and six employers—found... [Read more.] 


This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 2 February 2011.
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