High rates of stress and mental illness in New Zealand workplaces mean there is increasing recognition of the need to protect wellbeing and foster mental health at work. Otherwise, we lose talented staff through stigma, stress and distress, and see team resilience and innovation suffer. Having more skilful [...]
Regular exposure to suffering, hardship or crisis can take its toll on all of us. Whether you’re a firefighter, caregiver, nurse, policy advisor, climate change activist, paramedic, case worker or lawyer, many frontline and helping professions are exposed to some level of trauma – homelessness, child abuse, domestic violence, [...]
Guidance from WorkSafe New Zealand regarding the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 highlights that organisations hold a duty of care to monitor the health of their employees and to “identify potential signs of potential harm to their health”. We might think that this only applies to risks to physical [...]
This paper is a summary of the presentation by Dr Jeremy Robertson at the HASANZ Conference, September 2018 What is the state of employee wellbeing in New Zealand? What are the work factors that can affect our wellbeing and psychological distress? These are hard questions to answer without good data. [...]