Psychological Health and Safety
Preventing psychological harm and promoting mental health at work: psychosocial hazards, stress and burnout, fatigue and hours of work, supportive conversations and suicide awareness, substance use and impairment, accommodation and return to work, leadership and team psychological safety, and management systems under the OSH Act, ADA, FMLA, state workers' compensation law and ISO 45003.
HSE-109 12 lessons · 5 h 1 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain what psychological health and safety is, distinguish mental health, mental illness and psychological injury, and use the mental health continuum
- Identify psychosocial hazards using the thirteen workplace factors and ISO 45003 categories, and assess and prioritize psychosocial risks
- Interpret statistics on mental health at work and estimate the costs of absence, presenteeism and turnover with stated assumptions
- Describe the General Duty Clause, ADA, FMLA, state workers' compensation and privacy rules, and the role of ISO 45003 and the Surgeon General's Framework
- Explain stress, burnout and the job demands-resources model, and compare workload with capacity to judge sustainability
- Explain sleep, circadian rhythms and fatigue, apply hours-of-work rules and prior sleep and wake checks, and design safer shift schedules
- Recognize signs that someone may be struggling, hold a supportive conversation, respond to suicide risk and connect people with help
- Respond fairly and safely to impairment and substance use, including cannabis, opioid overdose awareness and testing rules
- Plan accommodation, stay-at-work and graduated return-to-work arrangements based on functional limitations
- Apply psychologically healthy leadership behaviors, build team psychological safety and interpret psychological safety survey results
- Build a psychological health and safety management system using plan-do-check-act, and prepare a cautious return-on-investment estimate
- Measure progress with rates and balanced indicators, and develop an integrated psychological health and safety plan for a workplace
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 1 min total · final exam
- 1 What psychological health and safety is 27 min · quiz
- 2 Psychosocial hazards at work 25 min · quiz
- 3 The scale and cost of mental health problems at work 24 min · quiz
- 4 Psychological health, safety and the law in the US 24 min · quiz
- 5 Stress, burnout and the demands of work 24 min · quiz
- 6 Fatigue, shift work and hours of work 25 min · quiz
- 7 Recognizing when someone is struggling and offering support 26 min · quiz
- 8 Substance use, impairment and the workplace 25 min · quiz
- 9 Accommodation, disability management and return to work 24 min · quiz
- 10 Leadership, psychological safety and workplace culture 24 min · quiz
- 11 Building a psychological health and safety management system 24 min · quiz
- 12 Measuring progress and capstone: a psychological health and safety plan 28 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Description
Preventing psychological harm and promoting mental health at work: psychosocial hazards, stress and burnout, fatigue and hours of work, supportive conversations and suicide awareness, substance use and impairment, accommodation and return to work, leadership and team psychological safety, and management systems under the OSH Act, ADA, FMLA, state workers' compensation law and ISO 45003.