Psychological Health and Safety
EY has a team of psychological health and safety, workplace mental health and psychological safety subject matter resources ready and available to help support large-scale projects or support with issues requiring deep subject matter knowledge and skills.
What is Psychological Health and Safety?
Psychological health and safety encompasses an organization’s systems and behaviours and the way those elements interact with their employees, decision-making processes, ways of working, and daily interactions. The outcome of those interactions can positively or negatively impact the psychological or mental health, psychological safety, and wellbeing of all individuals within the organization
Psychological health and safety involves employees and leaders supported by factors, including:
- The systems
- Leadership
- Team interactions
- Employee support
Why should you address Psychological Health and Safety?
Establishing a psychologically healthy and safe workplace is critical to maintaining your employees’ overall health, safety and wellbeing.
Maintaining a psychologically healthy and safe workplace can lead to improved:
- Recruitment and retention
- Employee engagement
- Sustainability
- Innovation
- Resilience
- Health and safety
With the introduction of ISO 45003:2021 and the World Health Organization’s Global Mental Health at Work Framework, psychological health and safety at work has become a priority for organizations globally. Governments have been establishing regulatory requirements to incorporate psychological health and safety in the workplace over the past decade.
How can EY help you address your Psychological Health and Safety needs?
Psychological Health and Safety Systems and Behaviours Review
With employee psychological health and safety becoming a large focus in the market, organizations are beginning to take action by reviewing their organizational systems, behaviours, and level of readiness to manage psychological health and safety in the workplace.
Psychological Health and Safety Management System Readiness Assessment
A systematic review of psychological health and safety in the workplace evaluates how well the system can identify and control workplace psychological health and safety risks.
EY’s review can provide:
- A review of system design and overall approach to promoting and managing psychological health and safety in the workplace
- A map of existing practices that are protecting and promoting psychological health and safety
- A review of your management system’s current state against EY’s maturity criteria as well as level of alignment with national and international standards and regulations
- A roadmap to help structure your transformation journey and develop your psychological health and safety management system action plan
Psychosocial Risk Factors Review
Psychosocial Risk Factors are defined as “work conditions that can have either a positive or a negative effect on employee psychological health and safety.” (Guarding Minds, 2022)
The Psychosocial Risk Factor Review framework can identify key areas for improvement with emphasis on:
- Promoting behaviours that support PHS and raising awareness to reduce stigma
- Preventing psychologically unsafe conditions through education, training, and clear policies
- Responding to psychologically unsafe situations with a clear and confidential incident management process as well as access to internal and external supports
Addressing Psychological Health and safety through the implementation of proactive, preventative, upstream strategies can improve the mental health, psychological safety and overall wellbeing of employees in the workplace.
Psychological Health and Safety Intervention Solutions
At EY, we are here to help you solve complex workplace issues
How can EY help?
With solutions that can be customized to meet your needs and easily integrated into your organization.
We have developed a catalogue of workplace interventions for Building Stronger Teams, Resolving Workplace Issues, and Enhancing Leader Support.
By working collaboratively with you and your team we can review your current issues and define your challenges, opportunities, and measures of success to find the right solution and customize it to meet your needs.
We can work directly with individual teams and leaders to implement your selected interventions. Once developed, we are happy to share our process and ways of working with your team who can then take the approach and embed it within your organization.
Psychological Health and Safety Training
Developing awareness, strengthening existing skills, and providing training on new topics or skills are key factors in promoting and protecting psychological health and safety in the workplace.
EY has developed a 4-step approach to Psychological Health and Safety with a focus on understanding your organization’s needs and ways of working, to promote a smooth transition of new knowledge and techniques into existing processes.
Our training catalogue includes courses such as:
- Preventing burnout and building resilience
- Finding balance
- Psychologically Safe Leaders
- Leading by example
- Creating team connection
- Getting employee commitment rather than compliance
Our experience tells us that each delivery method comes with its own unique benefits; the opportunity exists to use the new world of work as a springboard to expand the possibilities of what a Psychological Health and Safety culture change experience could look like in your organisation. EY is able to deliver training in face-to face, blended, or entirely virtual formats.
