Mentally Healthy Workplaces
Project status: Completed
Are free breakfasts and yoga sessions enough to make a mentally healthy workplace?
Use the Psychosocial Hazard Work Re-Design Tool to find out what your business can do for team wellbeing.
Over the past decade, poor mental health in the workplace has emerged as a significant concern for workers, businesses, and governments alike.
Globally, there has been a shift from focusing on the mental health risks of individual workers mental to implementing broader approaches that identify and drive the adoption of key aspects to a mentally healthy workplace.
An evidence-based solution for a big problem
In partnership with the University of New South Wales, and informed by the NSW Mentally Healthy Workplaces Strategy 2018-22 (SafeWork NSW, 2018), we worked with participants in commercial businesses to test a new tool that aimed to help businesses redesign ways of working to consider the mental health of their team. In just over 8 weeks, we saw success.
Here it is, The Psychosocial Hazard Work Re-Design Tool (PHReD-T)
The tool is designed to help participants develop skills, competency, and confidence in work-redesign that will prevent and manage psychosocial risks.
It is an evidence-based product that will help transform your workplace into one that sets your team up with the tools and processes to be mentally happy and healthy at work.
Further reading
- Industry summary of our systematic review of current interventions and strategies here.
- Industry summary of our qualitative study exploring the barriers and motivators to workers and businesses in adopting and maintaining mental health interventions and strategies here.
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