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Support for risk assessing mental health 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 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.
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.
One Time
£395 + VAT