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Workforce Resiliency

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Description

Stress infiltrates our lives every day and has effects beyond what we usually realize. The Workforce Resiliency series provides information about individual and organizational resiliency in the face of stress, emergencies, and disasters. In module 1, Stressful Effects of Disasters on Workers, learn how to define stress and the effects that stress has on your behavior, biology, and psychology in both day to day and disaster situations. Module 2, Individual and Organizational Preparedness, helps you to distinguish types of coping styles, incorporate strategies to increase organizational preparedness, and to maintain your personal resiliency and wellbeing, to ensure that you and your organization will be ready to respond in the event of a disaster. The final module in the series, During and After an Emergency, details steps that you and your organization can take to maintain and restore resiliency during and after a disaster or emergency.

Objectives

By the end of module 1, participants will be able to:

  • Define stress and discuss its relationship to workplace performance.
  • List and describe various routine work-related stressors as well as likely disaster-related stressors.
  • Explain the psychological, social, behavioral, biological, and physical elements of acute stress and how these aspects relate to one another.
  • Describe the characteristics of both individual and workforce resilience in the context of disasters.


By the end of module 2, participants will be able to:

  • List and describe preventive steps that organizations and individuals can take to increase coping and build preparedness before a disaster occurs.
  • Define the different categories for coping behaviors.
  • Identify organizational methods of increasing preparedness.
  • Increase personal resiliency with the DREAM method.

By the end of module 3, participants will be able to:

  • List goals that organizations can set to help them maintain and build resiliency.
  • List actions that organizations can take to sustain and increase resiliency during and after a disaster.
  • Identify potential problems that may occur during a disaster response and determine solutions that can help alleviate the stressors that can occur.
  • List actions that individuals can take to increase and sustain resilience during and after a disaster.

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