Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association Workplace Mental Health Symposium 2023

+ Target Audience: workplace leaders, HR professionals, mental health practitioner

+ Information:

A practical, cross-sector meeting focused on creating psychologically safe, high-performing workplaces. Sessions translate evidence and lived experience into tools for prevention, early intervention, return-to-work, and sustained wellbeing across industries.

What You Will Learn

• How to design and implement psychosocial risk management aligned with contemporary standards

• Early-warning signs, supportive conversations, and pathways to care (internal and community)

• Building leader and peer capability: mental health literacy, stigma reduction, and help-seeking

• Return-to-work frameworks that balance safety, performance, and legal obligations

• Measuring impact: dashboards, pulse surveys, claims data, and ROI beyond dollars (retention, safety, culture)

• Strategies for remote, hybrid, shift, and frontline workforces; considerations for small vs. large organisations

Who Should Attend
Executives, HR/People & Culture leaders, WHS/OHS and risk professionals, EAP and wellbeing teams, clinicians supporting workplaces, union/industry representatives, researchers, and program vendors.

Why Attend

• Convert policy and research into simple, repeatable practices that fit your context

• Learn from sector benchmarks and real implementations—what worked, what didn’t, and why

• Leave with playbooks for leaders, managers, and teams that improve safety, engagement, and retention

+ Topics:

*Note: these are continuous video recordings during the conference, they include individual lectures mentioned in the Detail section below

• September 7.mp4
• September 8.mp4

*Detail:

• Psychosocial hazards: workload, low role clarity, remote isolation, bullying/harassment, moral injury

• Prevention & promotion: job design, autonomy, recognition, civility, and psychological safety

• Early intervention: peer programs, mental health first aid, crisis pathways, critical incident response

• Recovery & RTW: reasonable adjustments, staged duties, monitoring, confidentiality and documentation

• Legal & governance: duty of care, standards alignment, reporting lines, contractor considerations

• Inclusive practice: culturally safe approaches for First Nations and diverse communities

• Data & evaluation: metrics, dashboards, privacy, and translating insights into action

• Special settings: healthcare, education, public safety, construction/mining, and SMEs