Unraveling Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias in the Workplace: A Holistic Approach to Worker Health and Safety Recording

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In this session, we delve deep into the critical issue of microaggressions and unconscious bias in the workplace, with a specific focus on their profound impact on worker health and safety. Microaggressions are subtle, often unintentional acts of discrimination that can lead to a toxic work environment, while unconscious bias influences decision-making in ways that perpetuate inequitable treatment. Both phenomena have far-reaching consequences on employee well-being and safety, affecting productivity, job satisfaction, and overall organizational performance. This session aims to raise awareness, foster empathy, and equip participants with practical strategies to foster a more inclusive, respectful, and safe
work environment.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will:

Recognize the concept of microaggressions and unconscious bias in the workplace.
Comprehend the connection between worker health, safety, and workplace discrimination.
Appreciate the importance of fostering an inclusive and respectful work environment.
Acquire practical tools to address and combat microaggressions and unconscious bias.
Develop action plans for promoting worker health and safety through inclusivity.

Contributors

Eva Glosson

Eva is an industrial hygienist and researcher from the Puget Sound area of Washington State. Eva has 15 years of experience assessing a variety of worksites for occupational safety and health concerns and has studied occupational fatalities under a grant from NIOSH, including the prevalence of occupational homicides as the leading cause of occupational death for many women throughout the United States and across industries. Eva has a BS in Geoscience and an MS in Engineering with a concentration in Occupational Safety and Health, both from Middle Tennessee State University. They have also gone back to school specifically to study workplace violence under the academic umbrella of psychology. Eva has a passion for workplace violence, in a professional academic way, and hopes to continue researching this field and helping workplaces understand this hazard so workers aren't harmed from preventable violence.
Ivan Pacheco

Ivan is an accomplished industrial hygienist with significant experience in mining operations and aerospace. He is from Utah and currently resides in Seattle Washington. Ivan has a true passion for industrial hygiene, all things occupational health and safety, and helping people and companies succeed. He has been fortunate enough to learn from other industrial hygienists throughout his career as well as collaborate as a member of the AIHA MSIG. He strives to help implement, drive, and sustain a healthy and safe work culture in all facets and is also an advocate for psychological safety in the workplace.

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Contributors

Eva Glosson

Ivan Pacheco