Move from confusion to mastery over risk assessing mental health

Support for undertaking psychosocial risk assessment for experienced Health and Safety professionals. This online course is designed for people experienced in completing risk assessments to familiarise themselves with risk assessing mental health.

If you are like many health and safety professionals you have an excellent understanding of physical hazards and managing risks in your work. However, expectations are changing and suddenly Health and Safety Departments have found themselves with a legal responsibility for the mental health of staff. This is something that traditional approaches to risk assessment haven’t considered and this highlights the Health and Safety Gap…

The Health and Safety Gap

Expectations have increased about the need for employers to risk assess and reduce the likelihood of staff experiencing mental health difficulties. With the US Department of Labor and the UK’s Health and Safety Executive taking more interest in how employers are reducing these psychosocial risks it is vital that those with Health and Safety responsibilities act now.

However, risk assessing mental health can be seen as complex, with so many variables and ultimately the fact that mental health difficulties are different at an individual level.

Health and safety training historically has not covered mental health and it can feel overwhelming to try and systemise such a complex system. Factors like interpersonal relationships, job demands, support from managers, role clarity or change all play a part. Add to that people’s wellbeing being affected by how much control they feel they have in their role, risk assessing mental health is complex.

Provision normally handled by HR, OD or L&D teams come into the remit of Health and Safety departments as part of controlling the workplace mental health risks.

This leads to a Health and Safety gap, where those risk assessing mental health are not historically skilled in meeting the mental health needs of staff.

We’ve worked with Health and Safety professionals to understand this gap and develop this online course to help with risk assessing mental health.

The Course

International expert Richard Daniel Curtis delivers this online course. It is presented in 15 minute lessons to facilitate access for time-pressured individuals.

Modules:

• Mental health hazards
• Categories of hazard
• Identifying and recording control mechanisms
• Risk assessment templates and risk assessment matrix for mental health
• Introduction to individual stress risk assessment

This course is focussed on implementation, view the theory below and take the course to implement it in your organisation.

Course Instructor

Richard Daniel Curtis Author

Richard Daniel Curtis is an internationally recognised mental health disruptor, leading wellbeing expert and mentor. He advises businesses on how they can improve overall performance by reimagining workplace wellbeing and implementing strategies which put their people first. With nearly 20 years’ experience advising government, organisations and individuals on mental health strategy, he works globally. Within the UK alone, he has transformed the lives of more than 12 million people. In 2013, Richard founded The Root Of It; his award-winning training and consultancy business which is now a trusted adviser to thousands of companies. What sets Richard apart is his ability to simplify strategy, challenge conventional thinking and make mental health and wellbeing easier for leaders. Confident in the guidance he provides and its ability to deliver real business impact, he even offers a money back guarantee across all his training courses. He works with the energy, engineering, manufacturing, construction, defence and financial services sectors and has also advised large brands including international food and beverage specialist SSP Group, Coca Cola Europacific Partners, and the Royal College of Nursing. Alongside his work with businesses, Richard co-authored the guidance for the statutory mental health curriculum in England, following a request from the Department for Education.

Benefits

Increased awareness of mental health risk assessment hazards.

Understand how to identify gaps in your staff provision that may be increasing risk.

Learn how the risk assessment matrix is adapted for mental health.

Have a plan for mapping out the existing organisational controls that reduce the risks in your workplace.

What is not covered

This course covers risk assessing mental health, it is designed for people experienced in completing risk assessments. It is not suitable for people who are not familiar with undertaking risk assessments.

Unfortunately, we are unable to complete the risk assessments for your business, but we will get you headed in the correct direction.

The webinar

Don’t believe what you’re reading? Watch Richard’s webinar to get a taste of some of the content.

Here Richard discusses the main theoretical points to consider when risk assessing mental health, including:

• Current expectations around workplace mental health
• How to identify potential gaps in your approach
• What a practical risk assessment process can look like 

What next?

Get implementing! Take the course now to get risk assessing mental health today….

Book your place today to be sent an invoice and gain access to this vital course.

The course is completed online through this website.