Items Tagged with 'mental health'

Part 2 of this series focuses on how restorers and cleaners can manage stress, support their mental health, and build resilience. 

An industry veteran and cleaning and restoration professional shares his personal lessons on his health, burnout, and building a solid career foundation.

In mold remediation, physical safety often takes the spotlight, but beneath those layers of protection lies another crisis in the mounting psychological toll on the very workers trained to restore safe environments.

As hurricane and fire season approach, it’s crucial to prioritize your mental health and well-being in high stress restoration jobs. Here are a few strategies that help maintain your mental well-being, preparing for emergencies and supporting your team through challenging times. 

This is the third and final article of a multi-part series on employee burnout in the restoration industry. 

This is the second article of a multi-part series on employee burnout in the restoration industry.  Part one introduced the nature of burnout, and summarized findings from a study on burnout in the restoration industry. 

Since the 1990s, experts have been declaring burnout levels are reaching epidemic proportions among North American workers (Maslach & Leiter, 1997). Since that time, most people would probably agree that work related stressors have only intensified with the proliferation of metrics, technology, and the need to be “on” all the time.