The suicide of hospital professionals, often presented as linked to working conditions, raises the question of its understanding and the tools available to establishments to prevent it. This Guide proposed by the Fédération Hospitalière de France (FHF), intended for local managers, aims to support them, on the one hand, in the prevention of the risk of suicide, on the other hand, in the management of a case of acting out.
The FHF Human Resources Commission has launched a call for projects on understanding, methods of prevention and reaction to the risk of suicide in healthcare establishments. On the basis of a bibliography and interviews with professionals in the field who have been confronted with suicide attempts, a guide has been written by an interdisciplinary team coordinated by Marc Olivaux, researcher in management sciences at the University Nimes. This study aims to:
– to better understand the springs of the suicidal phenomenon in French public hospitals;
– resituating them in an overall framework, in particular by presenting the processes and the main individual and organizational risk factors;
– to propose some means of detecting and preventing the risk of suicide;
– discuss crisis management and recommend actions to take in the event of suicide or attempted suicide in the workplace.
« It appears that the first suicidal ideation seems to begin during medical studies, the latter affecting 11% of medical students.
« The main risk factors identified being strong constraints, low decision latitudes,
conflicts, overloads or even non-recognition of work.«
To make it more operational, the Guide “ Understanding and preventing suicide risk in the professional health sector » has been broken down in 3 booklets :
• These booklets are supplemented by 2 summary posters: poster 1 and poster 2 as well as by the presentation material of the Webinar dedicated to them and the link to its replay.
Graphic design and illustrations: Manon Ménard for the FHF.
