After giving all employees a paid "check-up" day each year, an employer that promotes early detection has now upped the ante with a partnership that provides screening, follow-ups and results on the same day.
Leadership quality is one of the biggest risk factors for a toxic work environment, and there are often leading indicators that can be addressed before cultures become psychologically unsafe, according to a behavioural scientist.
A conversation about a person's mental health isn't "an HR thing", it's "a management thing", and one way to ensure those conversations build trust is by taking a gender-sensitive approach, a men's health specialist says.
Reframing workplace psychosocial hazards as an industrial relations area would help organisations improve their risk mitigation and management, researchers say.
"Micro coaching moments" are among the ways progressive HR functions are combatting managers' fear of giving performance feedback, according to an experienced consultant.
Controversial reforms aiming to "stabilise" the NSW workers' compensation scheme will instead "radically reduce" employees' psychological injury rights, according to critics of the proposals.
An employee had "untenable" expectations for workplace adjustments, the Fair Work Commission has found, given she hadn't disclosed a psychological condition to her employer.
The busy nature of HR roles means most teams rarely debrief between stressful events, but making time to do so in a structured way has multiple benefits, according to a conflict specialist.
Some employers have successfully stepped up to the task of managing psychosocial safety, but in many other workplaces, initiatives are falling flat. Join us for an HR Daily webinar to understand what's holding back progress in this critical space and how to move forward.
