Fourteen organisations have been successful. Read more about their projects.
Mind Your Head
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is leading the Mind Your Head campaign to drive employers to create mentally healthy workplaces using a systems approach to address the work-related factors that impact mental health. Employers and employees will be empowered to identify psychosocial hazards and prevent mental injuries.
Collaboration Delivers Wellness in Manufacturing
Working with manufacturing companies the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) led project will focus on the adoption of policies and workplace practices that assist employers to recognise risk factors for the prevention of mental injury. The project will also raise awareness and understanding about the work-related factors that impact mental health. Working together toward this shared objective will provide the foundation for lasting, co-operative relationships at the workplace level.
Applied Mental Health Leadership (AMHL)
Uses a digital platform, informed by evidence, to support University leaders to develop their skills in building mentally healthy workplaces. AP Psychology and Consulting's project focuses on increasing the capacity of leaders to identify and mitigate psychological risk factors and build psychologically safe places of work.
Participatory Design of Mentally Healthy Work
Co-designing prevention led interventions with workers and employers for a 'Complete Worker Wellbeing System'. The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is working with workers, managers, union representatives and project partners to devise proactive solutions to address the key work-related factors that impact poor mental health.
Positive Plans, Positive Futures
The Civil Contractors Federation Victoria (CCFV) project will reduce stress, burnout and increase retention among young workers and senior professionals in civil construction, through the inclusion of Mental Health Action Plans in tenders and applying a 'strengths-based approach' to develop a range of capacity building interventions.
Mental Health Leadership in Manufacturing
Working in regional manufacturing businesses, Convenience Advertising and their partners are using a purpose-built mental health, wellbeing, and sleep tool to gather baseline information about worker health. Based on the data, a number of interventions will be piloted which align to the work-related factors that impact mental health. Interventions will include rostering and scheduling practices and environmental controls including lighting and sleep factors.
Promoting Teacher Mental Health
This project will benefit teachers working within schools in the Independent and Catholic schools sector. Geelong Grammar School's Institute of Positive Education will use an online platform (FlourishDx) to apply a risk management and health promotion approach to support schools address the work-related factors that influence psychological health, safety and wellbeing in teachers.
Positive Leadership Training Suite (PLTS)
Aims to prevent mental injury in young workers and promote positive organisational cultures and leaderships. Liminal VR will work with managers across a number of industries using Virtual Reality (VR) scenarios aligned with the work-related factors that impact mental health. The project will then work with managers to identify opportunities for prevention of mental injury and promotion of positive leadership within their organisation.
An Integrated Approach to Wellness
Working with white collar workers in the construction industry, the project will investigate and research how organisations can address the work-related factors that are impacting mental health and wellbeing. Lysander is leading the project and will work in partnership with key decision makers to deliver a framework that will provide a standardised approach for building cultures of wellbeing.
Simplify
Working within the energy and transport industries 'Simplify' will reduce workplace complexity and create a job design and work simplification framework aligned to the work related factors that impact mental health. The fund recipient, Opposite, will develop interventions using co-design methodologies to improve systems and processes. They aim to embed workplace practices to optimise mental health and wellbeing and will develop tools and technologies to support ongoing implementation.
Wellbeing in Manufacturing
The project aims to optimise worker safety and wellbeing in manufacturing (defence industries) by providing employers with targeted, evidence based resources that enable them to move from compliance to best practice in addressing the work related factors that impact mental health. The Wellbeing in Manufacturing project is led by Rapid Context.
Workplace Diversity Project
Exploring how increasing diversity within workplaces drives improvements in mental health and wellbeing and reduces mental injury. Led by Tradeswomen Australia Foundation the project is working with the automotive repair and maintenance industry.
Fine-tuning Automotive Mental Health
Utilising a 'whole of business' approach to examine organisational practice and addressing work systems, the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) led project aims to drive systems change for improved mental health practices within automotive workplaces.
Primary Producer Knowledge Network
Working with primary producers in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries to co-design, develop and evaluate digital and other interventions to create cultural and systems level change across primary industries. The project will take a holistic approach to address the work-related factors impacting primary producers mental health, wellbeing and safety. This project is a partnership between Western District Health Service, National Centre for Farmer Health and Deakin University.