Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace

Join us on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 May 2022 for a two-day training course. This face-to-face course offers an introduction to psychosocial hazards in the workplace.

The course begins from the premise that most of us know something about mental health and mental illness and how work can affect us. This course will enable the learner to go to the next step of understanding what at work can affect our mental health.

Evidence-based and relating to safety in the workplace, this course will enable the learner to assess, control and review those control measures implemented for the psychosocial hazards in the workplace. The course demonstrates the application of risk-management principles to the identification & management of psychosocial risk.

By the completion of the course, you will understand what mental health and mental illness is, how to set up a process to assist in identifying psychosocial hazards within the workplace and how to risk assess those identified hazards and implement controls to those hazards.

Learning Outcomes:

• You will gain an understanding of what mental health and mental illness is.
• You will learn how to set up a process to assist in identifying psychosocial hazards within the workplace.
• You will learn and practice how to risk assess those identified hazards and implement controls to those hazards.
• The course will teach you the importance of return to work and return to work for someone after mental trauma.
• You will learn how to re-design a job for someone who has suffered mental trauma.
• You will learn about stigma and the role it plays in hindering people’s ability to successfully recover from psychological trauma and how to address stigma in the workplace.

The course is ideally suited to managers, supervisors, safety professionals, and those practitioners and professionals that are looking for an initial grounding in psychosocial risk.

Event Details:
Date: Thursday 19 and Friday 20 May 2022
Time: 08:30 - 16:00 AWST ( Both days)
Location: Vocational Training Services 2 Mackie St, Victoria Park Western Australia 6100 *(New Location)
Cost: AIHS Member $190+GST | Non-Member $340+GST
CPD Point: 40
* Coffee & Tea, Morning tea, and a light lunch will be provided* 

Your Trainer: 

Darryl Johnson, Post Grad Mental Health Nursing, Post Grad OHS and Trainer Assessor.

Darryl Johnson is the developer and trainer of the psychosocial risk course, and he the owner and Director of Mental Health Journey Australia.  

Darryl is a Registered Nurse and has Post Graduate qualifications in both Occupational Health and Safety as well as Mental Health Nursing as well as being a qualified Trainer Assessor.

Darryl has worked in many industries from manufacturing to the Australian Army and over the last 16 years within the oil and gas and mining sectors. Darryl has worked as a mental health nurse in the private, public and corrections sectors and currently does casual mental health nursing work at Royal Perth Hospital.

Darryl is passionate about workplace mental health. Darryl believes that by empowering people with education on mental health this is the key to breaking the cyclic nature of mental health-related workplace issues.

This session is endorsed by the AIHS