Whether its relentless organisational change, lack of empathy from leadership, FIFO rosters, or the stress of working in high pressure, dangerous work environments – mental health challenges and their associated ripple effect is a rising problem for most industrial companies.

As the CMHO for Australia Post, and previously working across a range of public and private sector organisations, Simon was struck by the need for some practical and scalable strategies to cut through the complexity of the mental health landscape. Key principles around risk assessment, job design and workload management are critical success factors in any Mental Health strategy.

• Importance of a simple and lean approach to mental health; and the avoidance of "fads" and unsupported techniques.
• Focus on the basics of good supervision and leader clarity to build a culture that enables team members to thrive.
• Building the capability of front-line supervisors to ensure confidence in managing Mental Health risk.
• Designing effective risk assessment and analysis processes to enable a lean and effective mitigation approach for critical MH risks.
• Helping to prioritise those risks that the workplace should rightly be held accountable for.
• Reducing unnecessary focus on those risks that were more relevant to individual employees.