--- title: Developing A Mental Health Strategy - Practical Guidance Series - Part 2 description: How to develop a workplace mental health strategy. image: https://blog.safetyworks.com.au/hubfs/Part%202%20-%20resized%20image.png --- [![](https://blog.safetyworks.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-500.png?width=499&name=logo-500.png)](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/) - [Who We Are](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/who-we-are) - [What We Do](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/what-we-do) - [Determining Current State](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/determining-current-state) - [Partnering to Determine Future State](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/partnering-to-determine-future-state) - [Managing Risk](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/managing-risk) - [Creating Inspired Safety Leadership](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/creating-excellence-in-leadership) - [Building Capability & Engaging People](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/building-capability-and-engaging-people) - [Enabling Wellbeing](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/enabling-wellbeing) - [Who we work with](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/who-we-work-with) - [Executive Safety Exchange](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/executive-safety-exchange) - [Our Story](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/our-story) - [Resources](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/resources) - [SafetyWorks Blog](https://blog.safetyworks.com.au) - [Case Studies](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/case-studies) - [Contact](https://www.safetyworks.com.au/contact-1) ![How do you know if you’re getting WHS consultation right?](https://blog.safetyworks.com.au/hubfs/SafetyWorks_WHS_Consultation.png) Oct 19, 2022 ### [How do you know if you’re getting WHS consultation right?](https://blog.safetyworks.com.au/how-do-you-know-if-youre-getting-whs-consultation-right) This week’s theme for National Safe Work Month of managing WHS risks and prevent harm highlights consultation as an essential part of work, health, and safety.There are many ways to consult with your employees, but how do you know if you’re getting WHS consultation right?✅ Issues, outcomes, and... 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But what does it look like? A mentally healthy workplace promotes mental health and wellbeing for the whole workforce, develops strategies to reduce the risks of mental or psychological harm, and ensures that staff who do develop mental illness are supported in a way that promotes recovery where possible. To effectively create a mentally healthy workplace we need to take an integrated, holistic approach, one that cultivates the conditions for all employees to protect and strengthen their mental health, regardless of whether they have an identified mental illness or not. A well-designed Mental Health Strategy will help to apply that approach and bring it to life across your organisation. **What are some of the benefits you can expect?** - Decrease in absenteeism and turnover - Increase in productivity, engagement, motivation and job satisfaction - Support for workers to thrive and perform at their best ** A Change Management Approach – where** **the development of your Mental Health** **Strategy fits** We need to understand how the development and implementation of a new (or strengthened) mental health strategy with its various interventions and projects, fits in to a broader cultural change process. When we overlay a change management lens on to the goal of growing a mentally healthy workplace it provides a real-world, practical framework for the essential cultural change. **The four phases of a cultural change program**  ![Framework image](https://blog.safetyworks.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Framework%20image.png?width=879&name=Framework%20image.png) **Critical Elements for Successful Cultural Change** In our 20 years of designing and delivering safety, health and wellbeing culture change programs across many different workplaces settings, we’ve found that the most *successful* psychological health and wellbeing change programs typically include these key components - 1. Senior leadership commitment, engagement and ownership 2. Co-creation and co-ownership of change framework and mental health strategy 3. Accountability and resourcing for autonomy-supportive leadership at all levels 4. Interventions are - a. Targeted b. Based on robust situational analysis of need c. Organisational, team and individual-level  5. Psychological safety 6. High level of employee involvement/engagement 7. Psychological health and the promotion thereof is understood to be more than just mental illness Taking into account all of these components, SafetyWorks has developed a **Workplace Psychological Health & Wellbeing: Framework for Change** to provide a systematic process for designing and implementing a holistic and sustainable change program for an organisation. The Framework for Change is underpinned by an organisational commitment to continuous improvement, and rests on the premise that its ownership and creation is embraced as a collective employee responsibility that spans and includes the whole workforce. 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