Are you dealing effectively with mental illness in the workplace?

Ensuring your workplace is healthy and productive means dealing with the individual needs, conditions and attributes of your employees. 

Managing employees with a mental illness is tough enough - on top of that, you need to negotiate what can appear to be the legal minefield of anti-discrimination law.  Often, there is little warning that you are doing the wrong thing, and even less help to do the right thing.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has produced an excellent new guide that may help you to better understand mental illness and assist you in developing strategies to effectively deal with mental illness in the workplace. 

The guide is available online at: www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/
publications/workers_mental_illness_guide.html

The Fair Work Ombudsman, beyondblue: the national depression initiative, SANE Australia and the Mental Health Council of Australia have endorsed the guide, and it is supported by Safe Work Australia. 

We encourage you to contact Lincoln Smith on 8210 1203 or by email on lsmith@normans.com.au if you would like to discuss the approach that your organisation is taking in dealing with its obligations to provide a safe, productive workplace, free from discrimination.

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