Mentally Healthy Work Development Programme
Why was this programme developed?
Psychological Health and Safety (or Mentally Healthy Work) is an emerging area of focus in New Zealand. Many organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of how they design work and the work environment to enable them to meet their health and safety duties to prevent psychological harm, whilst also maximising wellbeing and performance of their workforce.
This programme was developed in response to requests from across the public sector for foundational understanding an as an entry point to consistently lift Psychological Health and Safety capability at key organsational levels.
Development Modules Overview
Intended for Chief Executives and Tier Two Leaders with Heads of H&S/Wellbeing/HR
Four modules each comprised of watching a 20-30min video then followed by guided conversation with all participants.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to Psychological Health & Safety. Setting a Strategic Direction
- Managing Psychosocial Risk
- Operationalising with a Cross-Functional Approach
- Governing, Monitoring and Assuring
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Mentally Healthy Work - Practitioner Course
Intended for H&S, HR, Wellbeing and other practitioners working in the feild.
A micro-credentialled eight week course developed by Massey University's Healthy Work Group in partnership with Worksafe/GHSL, expressions of interest for the next course running April - June 2025 can be e-mailed to Associate Professor (and Course Lecturer) Dr. David Tappin D.C.Tappin@massey.ac.nz