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Workplace mental health
Your workplace can have a positive or negative impact on your mental health. Finding the right work-life balance can be difficult, but it might help different aspects of your mental health and wellbeing.
Workplace mental health can be affected by a range of issues, including work-related stress, workplace bullying and work-life balance.
The pages below contain information and resources on how your mental health can be affected at work, including strategies for staying well.
Work-life balance
Australians work the longest hours in the Western world and around one quarter report that work frequently interferes with other activities in their l...
Workplace bullying
Workplace bullying can be physical or mental and the behaviour directed against the victim can also be threatening or demeaning.
Work-related stress
Too much stress at work can affect you both professionally and personally. Understand how stress can affect you and how you can deal with it.
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment can impact mental health, lower self-esteem and cause fear, depression and stress. It's common in the workplace - and illegal.
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Our work in improving workplace mental health
The programs strategic intent is to work in partnership to build the capacity of industries, workplaces and individuals to know what to do to be mentally healthy.
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Rights and responsibilities
Improving workplace mental health is in everyone’s interests, and we all have a role to play. Both employers and employees have formal rights and responsibilities under discrimination, privacy and work health and safety legislation.
Read more on beyondblue website
Mental health in the workplace
Promoting mental health in the workplace benefits everyone; employees, managers, business owners and organisational leaders.
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Workplace wellbeing
As you are reading this, one in six Australian workers will be experiencing a mental illness. Many others will be experiencing the initial signs of mental illness including insomnia, worry and fatigue.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Information for health services
Evidence suggests health professionals are at greater risk of experiencing anxiety, depression and suicide.
Read more on beyondblue website
Strategies for healthy workplaces
Developing strategies for a healthy workplace helps minimise workplace risks to mental health and support people experiencing mental health issues.
Read more on beyondblue website
Mental Health Toolkit | Black Dog Institute
The mental health toolkit is a practical guide for Australian workers to assist them with understanding and managing common mental health issues in the workplace.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Taking action
Businesses and organisations can create more mentally healthy workplaces by identifying actions – a few or many – based on their needs and resources.
Read more on beyondblue website
Roles of different individuals
Creating a mentally healthy workplace is everyone’s responsibility. Initiatives that are holistic and involve people at every level are far more likely to effect change than either ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’ efforts.
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Connecting with co-workers | Head to Health
The culture of a workplace is important for employee mental health. If you and your co-workers experience positive mental wellbeing at work, it can boost your mental health outside of work too.
Read more on Head to Health website
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Mental health in the workplace
Promoting mental health in the workplace benefits everyone; employees, managers, business owners and organisational leaders.
Read more on beyondblue website
Workplace wellbeing
As you are reading this, one in six Australian workers will be experiencing a mental illness. Many others will be experiencing the initial signs of mental illness including insomnia, worry and fatigue.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Mental Health Toolkit | Black Dog Institute
The mental health toolkit is a practical guide for Australian workers to assist them with understanding and managing common mental health issues in the workplace.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Taking action
Businesses and organisations can create more mentally healthy workplaces by identifying actions – a few or many – based on their needs and resources.
Read more on beyondblue website
Roles of different individuals
Creating a mentally healthy workplace is everyone’s responsibility. Initiatives that are holistic and involve people at every level are far more likely to effect change than either ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’ efforts.
Read more on beyondblue website
The business case
Why should your business take action on mental health? Here are some compelling reasons.
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Identify priority areas
The first step is to provide information about your workplace relating to three priority areas - awareness and stigma; availability of training and resources; and specific risk factors that can affect the mental health of employees.
Read more on beyondblue website
Developing an action plan - Step 1: Identify priority areas of action
Every workplace is unique. However, there are a number of key issues and mental health risk factors that are relevant to workplaces across all industries and business sizes.
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Workplace interventions for preventing work disability | Cochrane
Read more on Cochrane (Australasian Centre) website
Creating a mentally healthy small business
Small businesses are often like families – close-knit and always there for each other if anything goes wrong. No one wants to see a co-worker struggling, but for small businesses the impact can be even greater.
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