Mentally Healthy Work Hub | Government Health and Safety Lead

Mentally Healthy Work or Psychological Health and Safety is a key focus for the Government Health and Safety Lead. In the GHSL four year plan mental health is identified as a high risk area across the sector and has resulted in the sharing of learning and development resources and good practice initiatives.

The Government Health and Safety Lead places significant focus on psychological health and safety, launching the Mentally Healthy Work Programme in 2023. This includes the Worksafe funded pilot of the Development Programme (workstreams for Executives, Heads of H&S and Practitioners), the Community of Practice, and the Resource Hub.

Content created during the pilot has been redesigned into four development modules intended to be progressed through collectively by Executives, Functional Leads, and Governance forums, providing foundational knowledge and allowing any organisation flexible delivery options in their context at no cost.

Capability programme for Executives and Senior Leaders, Functional Leads (H&S, Wellbeing, HR & OD) and Governance groups.

The Mentally Healthy Work Development Modules are a capability programme to lift psychological health and safety practice across the public sector. The focus of the modules are to build core literacy and equip agencies with sufficient knowledge and understanding to apply to their work recoginsing that effective psychological health and safety risk management requires multiple levels of an organisation to be aligned and committed, they aim to bring together technical experts with key decision makers within an organisation.

Facilitate the sharing of good practice, ideas and challenges between practitioners

The Mentally Healthy Work Community of Practice is a forum for cross-disciplinary practitioners who lead or support their agency's efforts relating to psychosocial risk management/mentally healthy work such as Health & Safety, Wellbeing, Human Resources and Organisational Development. This is a forum to share challenges, ideas, and insights from your work and discuss current thinking in the field / concepts covered within the Mentally Healthy Work Development Programme.

Resources, tools, ideas and initiatives from other agencies and experts

A range of resources and tools that have been developed and shared to support organisations with their workplace mental health efforts.

We will continue to add resources on an ongoing basis. If you have any tools and templates, intiatives or examples of good practice organisations may benefit from please get in touch.

Please note: if you are a commercial provider reproducing our material, we respectfully request that you acknowledge the GHSL (or the original source where applicable) and refrain from copyrighting the material so both private and public organisations can continue to use and promote these resources freely.