Dr Dougal Sutherland: Giving the mental health and safety of your business a warrant of fitness
The start of a new year is often a good time to check in on how your business is going. Just like we’d take our car in for a WOF, it’s just as important to get a WOF done on the mental health and safety of your business.
Recent court case highlights that workplaces can be held liable for the mental distress and injury their workers suffer.
At its most basic level, mental health and safety at work means making sure that workers aren’t being mentally harmed by the work they’re doing. Mental harm can occur through things such as exposure to traumatic material (e.g., a first responder), having…
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