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Managing mental health and stress in the workplace

Poor mental health and stress is common in the workplace. Preliminary research shows that Australian businesses lose over $6.5 billion each year by failing to provide early intervention/treatment for employees with mental health conditions.

Clearly, the cost of ignoring the problem is far greater than the cost of developing and implementing strategies to properly manage employees’ mental health. Legal claims can also arise if employees’ mental health conditions are not adequately managed.

Join Belinda Winter, a partner in our workplace health relations and safety team, and a qualified Mental Health First Aid Trainer and Megan Pool, an associate in our workplace relations and safety team and a mental health first aider, for our complimentary workplace seminar for employers and managers.

The seminar will provide:

a general overview of the prevalence of mental illness in Australia
a basic understanding of potential types of mental illness that may be experienced in the workplace
an employer’s legal obligation to protect employees from workplace stress under WHS legislation
how to facilitate conversations about stress and mental health issues and how to have an ‘R U OK?’ conversation
the workplace policies and wellbeing policies all employers should have and how to effectively implement them within your business
considerations of reasonable adjustments for employees experiencing a mental health condition
psychiatric injury and liability issues for employers
recent case studies.

We hope you can join us.