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.