Ensuring health and safety at work, including addressing risk factors to mental health, is not only a legal obligation for employers but makes good business sense, helping to reduce costs, boost productivity and increase staff engagement and retention.
Taking action to improve mental health at work has been a game-changer for South Western Sydney Primary Health Network (PHN), resulting in a long list of beneficial outcomes for the organisation and its employees
Over the past four years, sick-leave rates among staff have dropped by almost half and workers’ compensation claims have fallen to zero.
Key to this success has been developing a health and wellbeing strategy that includes a focus on addressing and minimising psychosocial risk factors in the workplace.
Read more: Managing Psychosocial Risk Factors at Work
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Youth self-harm program reduces hospitalisations, self-harm and suicide ideation
October 25, 2023A pilot program to reduce rates of self-harm and suicide in young people, the Youth Brief Intervention Service (YBIS), has resulted in significantly fewer hospitalisations for self-harm and reduced suicide ideation amongst youths aged 12- 25 years.
Opinion: Pilot program, Keep Quitting in Mind, found one in nine people who smoke and have a severe mental illness quit the habit
October 25, 2023A smoking cessation pilot program Keep Quitting in Mind – designed specifically for people living with severe mental illness – has helped one in nine participants quit smoking, demonstrating the positive impacts that are possible for an at-risk yet typically overlooked population group.
Promising results for smoking cessation program as one in nine participants quit the habit
October 25, 2023A smoking cessation program, Keep Quitting in Mind (KQIM), for people living with mental illness has resulted in one in nine participants quitting the habit and many others reducing their daily smoking by half.
Mindgardens Neuroscience Network acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures, and to Elders past, present and emerging.
We acknowledge the voices of people with lived experience, their carers, families and kinship groups. We recognise the expertise acquired through living with a mental health, drug and alcohol or neurological disorder and acknowledge those who care for people on their recovery journey. We place lived experience at the heart of all that we do.
Launch of world-first guidelines for the treatment of first responders with PTSD
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