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View allBusiness managers may have an enormous blind spot when it comes to productivity – the mental wellbeing of their employees. Here’s why it pays to mitigate this intangible but important risk.
Mental health disorders are now the primary cause of work disability around the world, and Australia shares the second highest prevalence of depressive disorders, at 5.9%, with the United States and Estonia, in the 180 countries surveyed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2017. In first place: the politically and economically troubled Ukraine.
According to a Beyond Blue-commissioned study, the State of Workplace Mental Health in Australia, a further third of the Australian population exhibits symptoms of worry, sleeplessness and fatigue.
The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reports that research indicates ‘job stress and other work-related psychosocial hazards are emerging as the leading contributors to the burden of occupational disease and injury’.
Impacts in Australian workplaces include
Source: AHRC Workers with Mental Illness: a Practical Guide for Managers
Mental health expert Dr Tyler Amell says there are three key actions organisations can take to prevent mental health issues in the workplace.
Gallagher National Head of Workplace Risk Vivienne Toll (pictured) says that mental health issues, while complex in nature, also represent an opportunity to apply a specialist approach that works towards a solution.
“Mental health first aid programs and initiatives allow the concept of first aid training to extend to mental health concerns so that employers and employees are empowered to provide better initial support to someone who is developing a mental health concern, has a worsening of an existing mental health problem or is in a mental health crisis," Toll explained.
“Gallagher Workplace Risk is focused on partnering with organisations to ultimately create a workplace environment that is focused on its people as its single most important asset,” she added.
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