Better Mental Health at Work

Course Duration

8.30am to 3.30pm (one day)

Course Overview

A mentally healthy workplace includes staff with the skills and confidence to address mental health in the workplace. Team members have a key role to play through minimising stress and other hazards, noticing warning signs, initiating conversations, and providing appropriate support.
Participants explore how to build a proactive and supportive mental health culture in the workplace.

Course Content

Welcome and Overview

• Setting the context
• Definitions and prevalence
• Mentally healthy workplaces
• Economic impact, job stress, burnout
• Learning outcomes

Psychosocial Hazards in the workplace

• Workplace health and safety responsibilities
• Identifying psychosocial workplace hazards
• Workplace assessment and implementing controls
• Stress management competency indicator tool

Addressing concerns and supporting individuals

• Signs: physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioural
• How might behaviour appear?
• Stigma, barriers, values and attitudes
• Planning and initiating conversations
• Appropriate responses
• Case studies
• Talking about suicide (briefly covered)
• Rehabilitation and return to work plans
• Reasonable adjustments
• Supports and referral
• Self-care
• Next steps, questions

Please note this course is delivered by a qualified Lifeline WA mental health trainer. If you are in crisis, please call or text Lifeline:

Lifeline: 13 11 14
Text: 0477 131 114
24 hours a day / 7 days a week

• Define a mentally healthy workplace and its characteristics
• Be aware of formal rights and responsibilities of employers
• Identify psychosocial hazards and apply a risk management process
• Consider stigma as a barrier to getting help, and strategies to reduce its impact
• Plan for and initiate a conversation with an employee you’re concerned about
• Improve active listening skills and practice appropriate responses
• Understand return to work plans and reasonable adjustments
• Increase knowledge of support services and how they can help.

This course requires no previous training or experience.