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What does a healthy workplace look like in Australia?

According to Australian law the Workplace, Health and Safety Act indicates that an employer must take steps to protect workers against risks to their physical and mental health. So, there appears to be an implicit agreement that that is what employers need to do. But what exactly is being done? The basic requirements cover: awareness and understanding of what a mental health issue looks like, particularly depression and anxiety- but what action needs to be taken after that?

What could a newer version of a healthy workplace look like?

Based on the discussion on the Home Page, this indicates a dire lack of knowledge and understanding of how, why and where mental health issues arise. This lack of understanding leads to lack of action e.g. specific prevention is almost completely lacking!

Mental Health issues are stressed-based. When you help people change how they respond to stress these are the results that can be achieved in the work place:

• Have a happier work force
• Have reduced staff turnover
• Have increased the baseline resilience to stress
• Have workers who are less depressed, have reduced anxiety, reduced fatigue, and feel better about themselves
• Have increased energy and are sleeping better
• Who are more present and more aware
• Who are better communicators, and are making better decisions
• Who are engaged, are more focused, have increased clarity, and are performing more optimally
• Who seem to gain more time to complete tasks because they are more productive and efficient
• Who feel that their employer cares about their mental health and wellbeing
• Who feel that their employer values their contribution and who feel they can now make the contribution they would like to make
• Who have gained more control over their work/life balance and this leads to a happier, healthy work force.

A happier work place leads to increased creativity, increased productivity and efficiency, greater staff retention and reduced costs of training and retaining staff which leads to an overall increased bottom line.

In order to obtain these types of results you need to be able to measure stress so that you can monitor it. This will enable you to make small adjustments to change or improve what you are doing to get the results you desire. This equipment is available within the programs offered here.

This is what these programs offered here are all about: helping people change how they respond to stress so that their baseline resilience to stress strengthens and they will be coming from a positive position, having increased energy and being able to focus, have clarity and feel happier than they have ever before. Conquering stress leads to fewer long-term mental health issues and a more productive and efficient workplace.