Psych Health and Safety Podcast What is Psychological Health and Safety? - with Mystery Guest
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