Mental Health & Wellbeing Resources
This collection of documents has been compiled as a resource for the Thales Australia Mental Health and Wellbeing Critical Risk Community of Practice. It includes the current Codes, Standards and Guides issued by Regulators and other bodies to address aspects of psychosocial factors in the workplace. It is by no means an exhaustive set, however, it serves as a starting point for practitioners seeking to implement programs that prevent or mitigate psychosocial harm
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Thales TRaCC Plus - Mental Health and Wellbeing - ISO 45003
TRaCC+ Melntal Health and Wellbeing Initiatives related to work organization increasing workers’ control over the way they do their work and improving attitudes towards managing and reporting psychosocial risk, including work related stress, harassment, bullying and violence at work.
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Comcare Workplace Sexual Harassment Guidance for Employers
One in three workers experienced sexual harassment at work in the past five years. The majority of workers chose not to report it, as some believed it would be seen as an overreaction, while others felt it was easier to keep quiet. These are findings from Respect@Work, the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment.
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Comcare Workplace Sexual Harassment Guidance for Managers and Supervisors
Managers and supervisors have a critical role to play in preventing sexual harassment. A safe and respectful working environment starts with strong leaders that understand their duties and ensure their workers are supported, protected and understand their reporting options through education and training. Remember, workers will often reach out to their manager or supervisor as a first step.
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People at Work - Taking Action - Preventive and Mitigating Controls
The purpose of your PAW action plan is to effectively manage the risk of psychological harm by implementing control measures that address the work environment and systems of work. This approach treats psychosocial hazards and factors much the same as physical hazards.
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Safe Work Australia Guide for Preventing Workplace Violence and Aggression
Your workers may experience violence and aggression when they are not at work from risks which arise at the workplace.
If you have management or control of a workplace, you have additional duties under WHS laws, which include taking measures to ensure staff can enter and leave work safely.
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Safe Work Australia Guide to Good Work Design
Good work design optimises work health and safety, human performance, job satisfaction, and business success.
The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022 is underpinned by the principle that well-designed healthy and safe work will allow workers to have more productive lives. This can be more efficiently achieved if hazards and risks are eliminated through good design.
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Safe Work Australia Guide To Preventing and Responding to Workplace Bullying
Workplace bullying can occur wherever people work together and in all types of workplaces. It is best dealt with by taking steps to prevent it from occurring and responding quickly if it does occur. The longer the bullying behaviour continues, the harder it becomes to repair working relationships and the greater the risk is to health and safety.
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Safe Work Australia Guide Work-Related Psychological Health and Safety
This Guide describes a systematic practical approach to managing work-related psychological health and safety. Most elements of this systematic approach are required under work health and safety (WHS)1 or workers’ compensation laws in all Australian jurisdictions.
This Guide recognises poor psychological work health and safety can lead to both psychological and physical injuries.
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SafeWork NSW Code of Practice Managing Psychosocial Hazards
When psychosocial hazards and risks at work are not effectively managed, this may increase the risk of work-related psychological and physical injuries, incidents and errors. Therefore, it may be helpful when assessing the risk of musculoskeletal and traumatic injury to consider the psychosocial hazards and risks and controls noted in the code.