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Mental Health & Wellbeing

2 courses

Psychological health sits inside work health and safety duties, which means an employer has to manage the risks that cause it harm, not just support people after the fact. Managers are where that duty becomes real. They set workloads, handle disclosures, and are usually the first to notice someone is not travelling well, whether or not anyone has told them.

Which one do you need?

Mental Health Obligations for Managers carries the compliance weight: what a manager's duty involves, how to respond to a disclosure, and where support stops and clinical advice starts. How to Ask 'R U OK?' is a short conversation skills course for the whole workforce. Hungry Minds runs the manager course as the obligation piece and R U OK? as the culture piece. For the underlying safety duty, see Psychosocial Hazards for Managers and Leaders.

Common questions

Is mental health training a WHS requirement?

The duty is to manage risks to health, and health includes psychological health under the model WHS laws. Training is one control that helps discharge that duty. It is not itself a standalone legislated requirement in most jurisdictions, so treat it as evidence of a reasonably practicable step.

What should managers do when someone discloses a mental health condition?

Listen, keep it confidential, ask what support would help, and consider whether any adjustment is reasonable. What they should not do is diagnose, promise outcomes they cannot deliver, or share the disclosure with the team. The manager course works through those responses.

How does this differ from the psychosocial hazards courses?

Psychosocial hazards training is about the work itself: workload, role clarity, bullying, exposure to trauma, and the systems that create those risks. Mental health training is about individuals and conversations. Most organisations need both.

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