Mental health at work resources

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This Best Practices report summarizes the effectiveness of return-to-work and/or stay-at-work interventions and presents best practices for individuals with mental health conditions. The report has been developed with methodological rigour and includes broad stakeholder input.

Brief information on reasonable accommodations addressing individuals with depression.

This report provides a business case for employee mental well-being, suggests actions employers can take and offers case studies and a route map to help ensure that mental wellbeing becomes a strategic boardroom issue.

A list of practical tools for managing stress and psychosocial risks. It includes national tools in Ireland and UK as well as the ones developed by EU partners and international organizations.

EARN’s Mental Health Toolkit is a gateway to background, tools and resources that can help employers learn more about mental health issues and cultivate a welcoming and supportive work environment for employees who may be facing mental health issues. It also presents an easy-to-follow framework for fostering a mental health-friendly workplace, all built around the “4 A’s”: Awareness, Accommodations, Assistance and Access.

This article goes into detail about mental health conditions that are prevalent in the workplace, such as stress, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. The resource provides information on how managers can support the mental health of individual employees, and how employees can support each other.

The SOLVE training package focuses on the prevention of psychosocial risks and the promotion of health and well-being at work through policy design and action. It includes a participant's workbook, a trainer's guide, lesson plans and CD-ROM with presentations and background materials. It aims to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to integrate the topics into an occupational safety and health policy and a workplace health promotion action programme.

This report provides valuable information on psychosocial risk management in the workplace. It contains a conceptual framework, analysis of the data, discussion of results and policy recommendations addressing the management of psychosocial risks.

This guide, published by international professional services company Ernst & Young, suggests actions which organisations can take to improve mental health and well-being of their workers.

This document provides guideline on the General Nordic Questionnaire for psychological and social factors at work, as well as the instrument itself. This tool has good psychometric properties and is available in Nordic languages and in English.

This questionnaire is intended for measuring the effort-reward imbalance at work that can lead to stress. It has good psychometric properties and is available in the following languages: Brazilian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. For commercial purposes the author needs to be contacted for permission (information on the link provided).

The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) is a tool developed at NRCWE in Denmark with the aim of assessing and improving the psychosocial work environment. It has good psychometric properties and is available in three versions: short for companies, medium for advisory purposes, long for scientific purposes. The questionnaire is available in the following languages: Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, Malaysian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

This training module allows employees and managers to assess common workplace scenarios that can impact mental health of employees. The module gives the user options for exploring different actions and provides insights for employees and managers on the best approaches and likely outcomes.

Easy-to-read, question-and-answer fact sheet about how to address and support mental health at work.

Short guidelines consist of actions organisations can take to prevent common mental health problems in the workplace, in order to improve their practices and reduce psychosocial risks. The guidelines are intended to complement existing legislative requirements for occupational health and safety and the prevention and management of discrimination and harassment.

The free resource for organizations with proactive, comprehensive ways to assess the psychological health and safety of their specific workplaces, along with information on appropriate solutions and a method of measuring the effectiveness of those solutions. It includes a practical assessment tool, evaluation tools to measure progress and outcomes, explanation of concepts as well as the business case and some legal and health considerations addressing psychological health and safety in the workplace.

This website provides free information, tools and resources available to employers to address psychological health and safety and mental health.

The public reporting guidelines on employee engagement ad wellbeing provide a framework for taking a strategic, proactive and integrated approach to employee wellbeing and engagement. The five segments of the model cover the actions businesses need to take to create an environment in which employees can flourish.

The interactive flowchart that provides recommendations on promoting well-being at work.

The e-guide to managing stress and psychosocial risks provides information about work-related stress and psychosocial risks to foster awareness, understanding and management of these issues in the workplace. It is designed to respond to the needs of employers and people working in small enterprises, who are starting to approach psychosocial risks in the workplace, and who need to get guidance on the first steps, such as explanations of the terms, effects on business, practical examples, national legislations, etc. The guide is available in national versions of EU Member States.

We Are Union is Victorian Trades Hall Council's campaigning and advocacy network. The resource provides information on stress, including definitions, legal standards, action plan, checklists for stress risk assessment and first aid, along with additional resources.

The Napo series of films are produced in computer graphics. They feature characters in the world of work, faced with safety issues.

Short factsheets about Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), work/life balance and workplace stress.

Comprehensive guidance on work-related stress. It provides an overview of the background, the challenges and measures for the prevention of work-related stress. It is available in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.

Guidance for the prevention of stress and violence in the workplace. It includes information on the approach, assessment, interventions and monitoring and evaluation. This document is written in English and Malaysian.

Brief good practice guideline on improving the mental wellbeing of workers in the telecommunications sector. It includes information on work hazards to mental health, mitigating harm and assisting rehabilitation as well as implementation of good practices.

OSHwiki is based on the wiki concept (see Wikipedia) of developing an online encyclopaedia where users collaborate to create and share knowledge. It provides information on psychosocial risks and workers' health.

This study aimed to assess the working environment, the employers’ possibilities and willingness to carry out risk assessment, ways to manage risks and the steps being taken towards progressive improvement in OHS.

This resource provides information on the management standards to address work-related stress, including preparing the organization, identifying the risk factors, evaluating the risks, recording data and monitoring and reviewing.

This resource provides information on what needs to be considered when managing health and safety and assessing the risks in the workplace. It includes information on the planning for health and safety, controlling the risks, providing supervision, training and information, among others.

This toolkit on the assessment and control of workplace psychosocial hazards includes relevant definitions, common causes of mental health conditions, legal framework (focusing on Ontario, Canada), possible actions to take and additional resources.

Short document on guidance regarding psychosocial risk assessment.

The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard) is a set of voluntary guidelines, tools and resources intended to guide organizations in promoting mental health and preventing psychological harm at work. This resource includes the Standard, the implementation guide, case study research report and additional resources.

This report provides valuable information on drivers and barriers for psychosocial risk management in the workplace. It contains policy context, translation of policy into practice, conceptual framework of the report as well as data analysis and discussion.

The Heads Up ROI tool helps to calculate the potential cost savings of taking action to create a mentally healthy workplace, based on the business size and industry. It draws on analysis by PwC, which averages out the impact of seven common workplace mental health initiatives.

The SOLVE training package focuses on the prevention of psychosocial risks and the promotion of health and well-being at work through policy design and action. It includes a participant's workbook, a trainer's guide, lesson plans and CD-ROM with presentations and background materials. It aims to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to integrate the topics into an occupational safety and health policy and a workplace health promotion action programme.

This manual, intended for companies, includes easy-to-apply checkpoints for identifying stressors in working life and mitigating their harmful effects. It also provides guidance on linking workplace risk assessment with the process of stress prevention.

In 2009, a case study collection on mental health at work was conducted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The present report is based on this collection of good practice examples. The aim of this report was to review the collated case studies, with the primary aim of equipping practitioners, policy makers and employers to draw conclusions from these studies, and take these into account when implementing programmes that target mental health in the workplace.

The ProMenPol toolkit provides a process manual for each of the stages of mental health promotion implementation as well as an enhanced search function. The manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to implement a mental health promotion project, including preparations, needs assessment, implementation and follow-up and evaluation.

StigmaFree Company is a part of a broader campaign which aims to end stigma related to mental health. It is an initiative to challenge, highlight and cultivate a company culture of caring and enhanced engagement around mental health. Various materials, including factsheets and videos on mental health are available for interested parties.

This campaign aims to challenge mental health stigma and change how it is perceived.

A programme launched in early 2017 by the with the support of the British Safety Council. It is sector-wide programme intended to help improve and promote positive mental health across the construction industry in the UK. The aim is to provide a consistent approach for the industry to understand how to help improve and promote positive mental health across the industry. The website includes training modules and video sources for organizations.

A month long national Green Ribbon Campaign will rolled out to get people talking openly about mental health problems in May 2017. More than 500,000 green ribbons will be distributed nationwide free of charge to spark a national conversation about mental health in boardrooms, break-rooms, chat rooms, clubhouses, arts venues, college campuses and around kitchen tables throughout Ireland. The aim is to make the month of May every year synonymous with promoting open conversation of mental health and challenging the stigma of mental health problems.

The campaign seeks to uncover why too few of us are thriving with good mental health. The website includes information and resources relevant to combating stigma and raising awareness on mental health.

A global campaign on depression, developed by WHO and highlighted on World Health Day 2017. The website offers useful information, short videos and poster related to depression.

Opening Minds focus on reducing stigma related to mental health conditions. The website offers publications on mental health in general, in the workplace and healthcare settings.

This website offers free information, tools and resources available to employers and organizations on elimination of mental health stigma. It gives information on the business case for reducing stigma, assessing the situation, creating, evaluating and maintaing the plan, and provides additional resources.

An anti-stigma and discrimination campaign aiming to raise awareness of mental health conditions. It seeks to show that mental health problems are more common than we think, and that each of us can be part of the solution in changing minds and ending stigma and discrimination against people living with mental health conditions. A campaign kit and further resources are available on the website.

Elephant in the Room is a national anti-stigma campaign designed to eliminate stigma associated with mental health conditions. The website provides posters, research on the campaign and a list of campaign participants.

This website provides an executive summary of the evaluation of See Me anti-stigma campaign.

See Me provoking campaign The Power of Okay is about getting people talking about mental health and being there for each other.

A mental health stigma and discrimination campaign, that includes various information for different stakeholders about creating a safe and mentally healthy environment. Information provided address senior management, policy, practices and law, training of managers and staff, understanding stigma, supportive staff and colleagues as well as the guide for employers and employees.

A campaign to end the stigma and discrimination that people with mental health conditions face. It includes the Employer Pledge - an aspirational statement indicating to employees, service users and the public that an organisation wants to take action to tackle the stigma and discrimination around mental health, focusing on the workplace in particular. In addition, it contains information valuable for employers and employees on how to combat mental, health stigma.

A nationwide mental health awareness campaign. The website contains a toolkit that includes a conversation guide, helpful tips for the workplace and shareable images for every individual to use as a sign of support in combating stigma and raising awareness on mental health.

The website provides resources that can help reduce stigma, increase wellness, and improve workplace psychological health and safety. Free resources, videos and strategies, including a stress-management tool are available.

This report calls on businesses to provide better support for line managers on employee mental wellbeing and to introduce Mental Health First Aid training for line managers. It highlights the evidence for empowering line managers to make a greater positive impact on employee wellbeing and includes insight from industry experts, advice on how organisations can take action and features the voices of line managers themselves as well as case studies of effective support programmes.

This training is for anyone who wants to learn more about mental health in the workplace, including managers. It is designed to increase the awareness of mental health and how it can affect people in the workplace. The course includes nine sections and should take around 1 hour to complete. At the end of each section is a small informal multiple choice quiz, with feedback on the answers. The access the course, the free-of-charge registration needs to be completed.

An interactive online source intended for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) with information and advice on how to manage mental health issues in the workplace. It addresses the unique challenges faced by smaller to medium businesses, which often don’t have money for specialist human resource services commonly found in larger organisations. This interactive online resource features video interviews with people involved in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) giving tips about how to recognise signs and symptoms of mental health problems in the workplace and how to help an employee.

This toolbox talk training package is designed to equip anyone managing staff with the knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver mental health toolbox talks to their team. It aims to encourage conversations about mental health in the workplace, reduce workplace stigma and support staff who may be experiencing a mental health condition. The training uses videos, case studies and individual and group activities to guide learning.

This resource assists managers to address a common workplace scenario. It provides short videos and using a ‘choose a pathway’ approach, managers are prompted to help an employee dealing with a mental health condition to the benefit of the employee and the business.

Information for managers on how to respond effectively to an employee who experience mental health problems.

Information on Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training for organizations.

Advice for employers on how to address mental health. It contains information on how to recognize early symptoms and carry out a conversation with an employee with a mental health condition, how to provide a healthy workplace and how to create supportive environment for disclosure and provide reasonable accommodation.

Mind is an initiative that provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. It offers resources and materials for managers on how to address mental health in their organizations.

A range of training programs, both face-to-face and online, that can assist leaders, managers and employees to understand mental health in the workplace.

Free and easy to use e-learning portal for managers and staff covering important aspects of on mental health at work. It contains short educational videos and a brief test.

Resources aiming at developing managers to support employee engagement, health and well-being. They include a simplified model and checklists highlighting the range of factors that can enhance or reduce the effectiveness of management development programmes, with the aim of supporting organisations in implementing them effectively; and a maturity model to help organisations establish their current stage of development.

The guidance offering practical help for HR and line managers to tackle the issue of stress at work. They are presented as three separate leaflets available for download: a framework for line managers, guidance for line managers and advice for HR professionals.

An outline of a session of the Working Through It awareness session for leaders, intended to prepare them better to support employees with mental health conditions.

A practical guide for line managers to supporting staff with a mental health condition.

The psyGA eLearning program aims to promote mental health through good health behavior. It includes chapters on stress and mental health, interrelations between leadership and health, recognizing and addressing signs of strain and internal and external support options.
The processing time of the eLearning tool is between 45 and 75 minutes - without or with completing of three self-checks. The tool is available in German and English.

The guideline for managers provides information on stress, its causes and effects and offers some guidance on steps managers can take to help themselves and their employees to cope better with the complexities and demands of everyday working life.

An interactive mental health e-learning, developed to assist managers respond to mental health issues in their organizations. It includes practical advice on managing absenteeism, difficult behaviour, interpersonal conflict and return to work.

An evaluation of a mental health training programme for line managers in the financial services in the UK .

A practical guide to managing and supporting individuals with mental health conditions in the workplace. It includes the information on identifying the early signs and talking at an early stage, keeping in touch during sickness absence, reasonable accommodation, return to work and managing an ongoing condition while at work.

A short and practical guide for managers – particularly those in small and medium-sized organisations. It offers practical advice, including a checklist, on managing and supporting people who are experiencing stress, distress and mental health problems.

The easy to use e-learning program which helps in gaining better understanding about mental health stigma and discrimination in work, recognizing early signs of mental health condition, disclosure, returning to work and reasonable accommodation. It includes six chapters, with each chapter containing short presentation and few questions at the end of the chapter. Free-of-charge registration is needed.

A guide for managers providing information on how to appropriately support workers with mental health conditions. It also provides information about how to develop and promote a safe and healthy work environment for all workers.

Information on range of options available to managers when supporting a staff member back to work, including information on reasonable accommodation.

This guide for employers and employees provides information about discrimination, disclosure of mental health conditions and reasonable accommodation.

Step by step guidance on how and when to provide reasonable accommodation. It includes company practices and model policy, among other things.

This guidance contains information, practical advice and templates to help managers facilitate conversations about stress and mental health problems. The aim is to put in place support so employees can stay well and in work.

Handbook for employers on disclosure of mental health conditions.

Brief information for individuals on disclosure of mental health conditions at work.

Brief instructions to employees on how to disclose a mental health condition to their employers

The e-learning module explains the duty to accommodate, the standard of undue hardship, and how accommodation is a shared responsibility. It is divided into two parts, and takes about 20-30 minutes.  It is intended for the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Leaflet explaining the legal requirement under equality law for employers to provide reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities, and what that might mean for employees with mental health conditions.

Resource providing information that help employers determine effective accommodations and comply legal requirements.

A resource can help clarify job expectations, identify employee abilities and develop accommodations when mental health is a factor.

The website provides recommendations on potential reasonable accommodation strategies for individuals with mental health conditions. In addition, it contains videos from employer and employee and additional resources.

A template that can be downloaded to help begin and record a discussion on reasonable adjustments between an employee requesting reasonable accommodation and employer.

A guide for local authority line managers to help them provide reasonable accommodation at work for employees with mental health conditions.

Brief guidance notes intended to help employers think through the potential adjustments at work for individuals with mental health conditions. They include practical advice, good practices and links to other resources which might help them to support job retention and return to work.

A guideline providing information on how to appropriately support workers with mental health conditions. It also provides the information about how to develop and promote a safe and healthy work environment for all workers.

The European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP) has taken the initiative to help promote mental health in workplaces. This resource is intended for employers and managers. It offers business case and practical advice mental health promotion and stress prevention, as well as how to manage and support individuals who are experiencing stress, and mental health conditions. In addition, this resource contains a 7-step plan on how to create a mentally healthy workplace.

A resource to help employers, teachers, employees and students address work and school issues, reasonable accommodations, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This website contains information related to laws, disclosure, and situations related to having a mental illness in the workplace or school setting.

The examples of accommodations that have helped employees with psychiatric disabilities to more effectively perform their jobs. The list does not include all possible accommodations, but it is a good starting point and provides some of the most effective and frequently used workplace accommodations.

The report provides findings of the National Employee Mental Wellbeing Survey as well as examples of good company practices addressing workplace mental health, including return to work.

The report is intended to support employers to handle mental health conditions among their employees. It summarizes the findings from the participating countries and makes the case for a stronger policy response.

This document is a part of the Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package. It provides information for relevant stakeholders on development of workplace policies addressing mental health, including support of workers with mental health conditions.

This website contains information and further links to resources for employers who are interested in how support their employees or colleagues with mental health conditions.

The report is an independent review of mental health conditions and their impact on people’s ability to work.

The website provides resources that can support disability management with employees experiencing mental health conditions.

This report concerns the design, implementation, and evaluation of an integrated practices program for supporting a return to work following an absence for a mental health problem. The research project was carried out in response to a joint employee/employer request made by a health and social services establishment in Québec, Canada, for intervention regarding the problem of mental health-related work absences among its personnel and their return to work.

These guidelines consist of actions organizations can take to facilitate return to work for employees following an episode of depression, anxiety or a related mental health conditions. They were developed using the Delphi method, which is a systematic way of assessing the consensus of a panel of experts. The actions have been rated as important or essential by expert panels of consumers, employers and health professionals.

The website is designed to be used by different people who might be involved in return to work after a mental health condition. It covers broad area and offers resources addressing actions that employers, employees, colleagues and family can take to support successful return to work.

Information for managers about how to support staff in returning to work after experiencing a mental health condition.

NHS Employers provides information on range of options available to managers when supporting a staff member back to work, including phased return and return to work meetings and plans.

This in-depth resource for line managers and HR professionals, sets out practical steps employers can take to support at every stage
of the mental health spectrum – whether they’re stressed or have a diagnosed mental health condition.

Provides information and resources for creating a positive and inclusive workplace for all workers, including those who have mental health problems.

This toolkit serves to help the organization in supporting the mental health and well-being of the employees. It aims to help to take positive actions towards building a culture that champions good mental health and provide a greater understanding and support for employees with mental health conditions. It is intended both for small and medium size enterprises and for big organizations. The toolkit includes case studies and provides direct links to additional resources.

This guide provides information and direction for line managers in promoting mental health for all employees and understanding and supporting employees experiencing mental health problems while in the workplace.

Good practices of interventions for work-related stress (including violence and bullying at the workplace), using the PRIMA-EF framework best-practice criteria for the evaluation of interventions.

The website offers resources that can support return to work of employees experiencing mental health conditions.

The Heads Up resources provide organizations with simple steps to creating a mentally healthy workplace and offers videos and flexible action plans that can be tailored for every size organization.

Program focused on helping managers, supervisors and other leaders learn how to effectively recognize and manage mental health-related issues in the workplace. It uses a story-based approach, portraying realistic video episodes of workplace "characters" dealing with situations common to everyday work life. It includes various materials, such as videos, quizzes and guides.

The European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP) started an initiative to help promote mental health in workplaces. This website offers guides for employers mental health promotion, good practices in psychosocial risk prevention and other useful resources.

Report on returning to work after experiencing a mental health condition. It includes a case study and practical tips.

The 5000 Initiative: Autism in Tech Workforce is an initiative to unite companies who train and employ people with autism in technology positions – resulting in 5000 jobs for these individuals by the Year 2020.

The Australian Government has developed a National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy to address barriers to employment faced by people with disability, including mental health conditions. The objective of the Strategy is to increase the employment of people with disability, promote social inclusion and improve national economic productivity.

KPMG demonstrates good company practice in inclusive employment for persons with mental health conditions.

The website contains information on the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) strategy for employment of persons with mental health conditions, including videos and basic principles of IPS.

This report provides a rapid review of the evidence on what is effective in supporting young people with mental health conditions into employment.

This research report includes the analysis of Supported Employment in Canada, recommendations to reduce employment barriers for people with mental health conditions and innovative practices to help them secure and sustain meaningful employment.

This report on supported employment programs for persons with mental health condition provides information about best practices and model legislation.

A factsheet for employment services summarizing eight key practices and providing additional resources on effective employment supports for individuals experiencing severe mental illness.

A factsheet describing core principles of the Supported Employment/Individual Placement and Support strategy.

This document highlights the barriers to better workforce participation of persons with mental health conditions, the economic disadvantages of the current Australian approach, and ways of effectively overcoming these problems. Moreover, it provides good practice examples and recommendations for all sectors of the community.

The website contains information on the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) strategy for employment of persons with mental health conditions. In addition, it includes evidence-based publications and videos of personal stories of the service users.

This review compares supported employment and Individual Placement and Support (IPS) with other approaches for finding employment. The two main finding of this study were: 1) Supported employment increases the length and time of people’s employment; 2) People on supported employment find jobs quicker.

The article presents four main categories of employment schemes - sheltered work, vocational training, transitional employment (or work experience) and supported employment - and their effectiveness. These broad categories have been adapted to different cultures and economic circumstances across the world. There are advantages and disadvantages to all forms, but the burgeoning research literature of the past 20 years does show that when it comes to finding people paid work in the open labour market, supported employment is markedly more successful than other methods.

This briefing paper addresses relevant issues on employment and mental health and includes Irish models of employment support for persons with mental health conditions.

This toolkit serves as a learning resource for managers to help them deal positively with mental health issues that arise in the workplace. It includes information about the recruitment process of new staff in an inclusive, fair and legally compliant manner, the impact of mental health conditions in the workplace and suggestions for managers on managing workers with mental health conditions in a way that supports the company and workers.

This report provides a framework for the training and employment of persons with mental health conditions.
It includes framework and recommendations for delivery of different training, employment and sheltered occupational services.

This review focuses on mental health and employment and provides recommendations on how to help people with mental health conditions fulfill their employment ambitions.

This web-based application provides a common language and guidelines for reasonable accommodation and walks you through the various steps required to provide an accommodation.