Psych Health and Safety Podcast

The last time we spoke with Louise Hosking, she was President Elect of IOSH. Now that she is well into her presidency, we caught up with Louise again to chat about the themes and campaigns of her presidency so far. We explore how to encourage more women into the safety profession, and how the safety profession can maintain the momentum and reputation it has achieved throughout the pandemic as a bu...

In this episode we chat with Dr Libby Brook, Principal Psychological Health and Safety Specialist at WorkSafe Victoria. Libby takes us through the Exposure Draft OHS Amendment (Psychological Health) Regulations, providing more context on the objectives, employer duties, control of risk, prevention plans, and complaint reporting. A useful episode for anyone who will be affected by the introduction...

In this episode we chat with Lucas Finch, Global Head of Wellbeing at Xero. He shares with us the approach that Xero is taking to psychological health and safety, and describes the steps being taken to operationalise the integrated approach. We discuss how to measure outcomes from a psychological health and safety strategy, and how to align a business case proposition with outcomes that are import...

Join us to celebrate the first birthday of the Psych Health and Safety Podcast! Who would have thought in just one year we would publish 74 episodes, feature 63 world-leading guests, host six live panels, spawn three spin off podcasts and record more than 27,000 downloads! In a special first birthday episode, co-hosts Jason van Schie, Joelle Mitchell, and Dr Alicia Papas teamed up to discuss the t...

Get FlourishDx Basic on a forever free account: www.flourishdx.com/signup LaMontagne AD, Martin A, Page KM, Reavley NJ, Noblet AJ, Milner AJ, Keegel T, Smith PM (2014): Workplace mental health: developing an integrated intervention approach. BMC Psychiatry . 2014 May 9;14:131. Available open access: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-14-131 . LaMontagne AD, Shann C,...

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In this episode we chat with Dr Don McCreary, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Brock University. We discuss the research he conducted for Movember evaluating the effectiveness of various workplace programs designed to prevent psychological injury in the general population and in the military veteran and first responder cohorts, how his findings have informed further research, and the need for re...

In this episode we chat with Christine Yeung, CEO and Founder of Beyond Story. She shares the relationship between loneliness and health outcomes, and discusses the interactions between work and loneliness. She discusses strategies organisations can implement to reduce loneliness, and explains why reducing loneliness is beneficial to employers.

Construction industry workers have a unique risk profile when it comes to psychological health. This panel will explore some of the issues associated with this group and discuss where workplace mental health practice needs to move in the industry to have a positive effect on this cohort.

AIHS Improving Integrated Approaches to Workplace Mental Health Conference (December 1-2, 2021): https://the-hatchery.co/event/aihs/ Free Live Panel Event: Improving mental health in the construction industry by improving 'work' (November 30, 2021): https://www.linkedin.com/events/improvingworkplacementalhealthi6854612964679544832/ https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk/toolkit/thriving-at-work-eve...