As the focus on psychosocial risks, mental health and healthy workplaces continues to grow, so too do the many misconceptions. Taking an interdisciplinary, holistic approach from Safety Science, H&S Risk management and Neuroscience gives a much richer and deeper understanding to achieving robust mental health and compliance to regulatory requirements for Psychosocial Safety. This talk will demystify, clearly explain the differences, and the requirements for sustainable workplace mental health and healthy culture and explain what each requirement is and how it contributes to workplace mental health. We also discuss how doing them in a specific and right order is critical to obtaining sustainable mental health and why so many workplaces get it wrong.

In this episode we talk about exactly what Psychosocial Hazards are, what risks are, what the causes are. And clarify exactly what these terms are commonly confused with, which they are not. This lack of clarity in distinction is primarily what causes failures in succesful implementation within workplaces. This is crucial to differentiate as the correct implementation makes the difference between a sustained healthy workplace, and a cycle of ongoing risks and band-aid fixes with high resource wastage.