What is Psychological Health and Safety? - with Mystery Guest
In the first ever episode of the Psych Health and Safety podcast we introduce a mystery guest (could it be the co-host of the show??) and define psychological health and safety. Learn about the current approach to workplace mental health, what needs to change and why. We also get to briefly introduce key standards from the UK, Canada and Australia and talk about the upcoming ISO 45003 Psychological Health and Safety at Work standard.
Psych Health and Safety Podcast · Joelle Mitchell, Jason van Schie
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Show Notes
In this episode:
1:00 Meet your co-hosts
14:00 Why a psychologically healthy and safe workplace is different to a mentally healthy workplace
17:30 The current approach to workplace mental health is backwards
22:00 Why are EAPs used in place of psychological injury prevention?
24:00 How fatigue risk management and psychological health and safety are very similar
25:30 SNAPS versus PERMA for mental health promotion
36:00 Why are physical injury rates going down but psychological injury rates trending up?
42:30 Why it’s important to treat employees as humans not machines
J45:30 Psychosocial hazard identification: the importance of employee consultation
48:30 Psychological risk management.
51:30 The latest workplace stress and psychological injury statistics.
59:00 Will the stick work better than the carrot to improve employee mental health?
1:04:00 Why does workplace mental health now fall under the HSE portfolio?
107:30 How psych health and safety will deliver more opportunities for people and safety professionals
Resources:
National Standard of Canada for psychological health and safety in the workplace
SafeWork NSW: Draft NSW Code of Practice Managing the risks to psychological health
UK: Labour Force Survey - Self-reported work-related ill health and workplace injuries
SafeWork Australia: Australian Workers’ Compensation Statistics 2018-19