Course overview
What this course covers
Understand how workplace factors can affect mental health and how early conversations, signposting and supportive management can help.
This course explains the key workplace risks linked with Mental Health Awareness and the controls normally used to manage them. Learners are guided through what to check, what to report and how this subject should be applied through local procedures, supervision and review.
Who Should Attend
Suitable for office workers, hybrid workers, managers, supervisors and support teams who need awareness of office safety, workstation risks, wellbeing and people-related workplace controls.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain why mental health awareness matters in a workplace setting
- Identify common hazards, unsafe conditions and warning signs linked with this topic
- Recognise suitable controls, checks and safe working arrangements
- Understand what should be reported, escalated or stopped when conditions are unsafe
- Know how records, supervision and review support ongoing control
Course Content
- Mental health and work
- Early warning signs
- Supportive conversations
- Workload and control
- Bullying and conflict
- Confidentiality
- Signposting
- Escalation routes
- Limits of the role
Course Application Focus
Learners should be able to apply the course information to everyday workplace checks, follow local procedures, recognise when controls are missing or failing, and raise concerns before harm occurs.
Legal / Regulatory Context
Relevant UK context includes the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Management Regulations, DSE Regulations where applicable and employer duties to manage workplace risks including foreseeable stress and office hazards.