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Your Strategy and Action Plan for a Mentally Healthy Workplace

The following introduction outlines the purpose of the guide to developing your own Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Action Plan.

Background

Workplaces that invest in creating a mentally healthy and safe workplace have been shown to have high employee satisfaction and engagement, lower costs associated with absence and turnover, and other economic and social benefits. A mentally healthy workplace is good for everyone and good for business. All workplaces are legally required to provide a physically, environmentally, and psychologically safe work environment.

This guide is designed to support your organisation to:

Establish a vision and goals
for creating a mentally healthy workplace
Identify priority areas and key actions
as well as roles / responsibilities of leadership and workers
Create metrics
to measure progress towards goals
Identify hazards and control risks
which may negatively impact on a mentally healthy workplace

How to use this guide

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