Building a Psychosocially Safe Workplace Onsite

Solutions in Action

Overview

Since 2021, WFR has proudly partnered with a mining client in the Southwest of WA, to deliver tailored Mental Health Services. With carefully custom designed programs to support employee wellbeing and build a Psychosocially Safe Workplace. This Enhancing Mental Wellbeing solution complements WFR’s broader delivery onsite of our Thrive model, including Boosting Employee Health and Preventing Worker Injury. 

Client
Sector: Mining & Chemicals
Locations: National
Program Commencement: 2021
Focus Areas: Mental Health Awareness, Leadership Training, Wellbeing Strategy

Support Strategies

To understand the business’s psychosocial risk, the client conducted a comprehensive Psychosocial Risk Assessment, supported by WFRs Mental Health and Leadership team in August 2020. The purpose of this was to identify key workplace mental health risks by evaluating hazards, causes, and potential impacts of various psychosocial factors. This proactive and holistic assessment consequently enabled the team to better understand and address the key drivers of employee wellbeing, helping to reduce psychosocial hazards and create a safer, healthier work environment. 

Our client then engaged WFR to complete a comprehensive Mental Health Positioning process. This allowed their senior leaders to explore their views on the importance of mental health in their business, workplace obligations, the role of management, and the business strategy going forward. Through the process of interviews, workshops, reviews and reports, the outcomes were a map of the organisational context for mental health, defined desired mental health outcomes, agreement on how the organisation will talk about mental health, and agreement on the roles of the organisation versus the part of the individual.   

The Mental Health Positioning led to tailoring Mental Health Workshops for the workgroup. This program, containing 2 training courses, was designed to build a mentally healthy workforce culture across all levels of the organisation, with training tailored to both general staff and leaders.  

Scope of Services

• Mental Health Positioning with senior stakeholders  
• Mental Health Awareness Training for all staff
• Mental Health Training for Leaders, including practical tools and services

Following the Mental Health Leaders training, the leaders were provided with a toolbox presentation series. As a result, Tronox leaders hold the strategies to enable them to lead their team through ongoing education and discussions.   

Outcomes to Date

• 1,354 employees trained in Mental Health Awareness
• 277 leaders trained in Mental Health Leadership
• 600+ staff have completed a Wellbeing Survey, informing continuous program refinement
• Bi-monthly toolbox talks ensure consistent mental health messaging across all sites
• Improvements noted in key wellbeing marker, including:
  • “How comfortable are you to ask for help?”
  • “How confident are you to have a conversation with others?”

Employees have completed a Wellbeing Survey as part of the program, providing a valuable snapshot of workplace mental health. Since the rollout, there have been clear improvements in overall wellbeing scores across the organisation. 

Client Feedback

“It was a great session, critical for all leaders. The best part was the real workplace examples and exercises.”

“The Leaders workshop gave me useful tools and created a network of colleagues to lean on.”

“Very good tools to approach people at work about understanding and helping improve their mental health.”

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