Psych Health and Safety Podcast

In this episode we chat with Hayley Farrell, Wellbeing Business Partner Lead for Emcor UK. Hayley shares her experience of the process of adopting ISO 45003 in a large company. She discusses the importance of including psychological health and safety as a strategic objective underpinning successful implementation, and describes how different functions across the organisation are able to collaborate and integrate when required. She shares tips for organisations in the early stages of implementation, including examples of what genuine leadership support looks like.

In the 24 August edition of Psych Health and Safety Live! Alica and Jason delve deeper into Monday's podcast (episode 48) with Dr Jan Smith and the discussion on psych health and safety in healthcare.

In this episode we chat with Dr Jan Smith, Director of Healthy You. We discuss the current state of psychological health and safety in healthcare, the variability in current approaches to management, and some of the very basic control measures that healthcare organisations can implement to improve the psychological health and safety of their employees. We discuss the role of leaders in driving psychological health and safety in healthcare. Jan shares her views on the impact that COVID-19 has had on the psychological health and safety of healthcare professionals, and offers suggestions for healthcare employers to help employees recover and stay in the industry.