Psych Health and Safety Podcast

In this very special episode, we introduce listeners to Alicia Papas, clinical psychologist, PH&S industry expert, and newest addition to the FlourishDx team! Alicia shares her experiences in implementing a psychological health and safety management system at a large university, discusses the important role that line managers play in creating a psychologically healthy and safe workplace, and provides some advice on how to achieve support from top management for a psychological health and safety program. We discuss some of the key projects Alicia will be working on in her new role as Head of Customer Success, and announce a new content pillar for the Psych Health and Safety Podcast - 'FlourishDx Live' - commencing mid-August.

In this episode we chat with Carolyn Haybittle, Occupational Health Nurse and Principal Health Advisor at Newcrest Mining. Carolyn gives us an overview of what an Occupational Health Nurse does and their contribution to workplace psychological health and safety. She shares her views on the main psychosocial hazards experienced by mine workers, and discusses the broad range of control measures that Newcrest has in place to mitigate those hazards across the employment lifespan.

In this crossover episode with the UK Psych Health and Safety Podcast, co-host Joelle Mitchell chats with Peter Kelly and Sheila Lord about ISO 45003, the pitfalls of individual coping focused psych health and safety strategies, the importance of upskilling leaders to be able to respond to psych health and safety concerns with empathy and compassion, and ensuring that there are appropriate organisational systems and mechanisms in place to support leaders in doing so.