Mind your head - Guidance for psychological hazards

This guidance document provides information of common psychosocial hazards and risk to physiological health to help Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) identify hazards in their workplaces.

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What it contains

Mind Your Head is a joint initiative between unions and employers, supported by Employers Mutual Limited and WorkSafe's WorkWell Mental Health Improvement Fund.

The aims of this campaign are to:

  • raise the priority of mental health and safety to sit equal to treatment of physical health and safety
  • educate and develop workers, HSRs, Managers and Leaders to understand work-related mental health risk factors and the relationship with Work Health and Safety (WHS)
  • design tools and resources for workplaces to create mentally safe systems of work
  • facilitate engagement with workers, HSRs, managers and leaders to work together to create mentally healthy work, and
  • review and analyse the interventions to determine best practice and create a community that learns from each other