The UK Psych Health and Safety Podcast

In this episode, Sheila is joined by co-host Jason Van Scie from FlourishDx. Sheila and Jason speak with special guest Kate Field, Global Head Health, Safety and Wellbeing at British Standards Institution.

Kate speaks initially about the standard ISO 45001 and then she explains why it was necessary to write the new ISO 45003 as a supporting standard and how it was developed.

She then speaks about the benefits of the new standard and how it helps organizations to put in place psychological health and safety at work.

In conclusion, Kate speaks about the certification of ISO 45003 and gives a valuable piece of advice to business leaders and HR managers.

Today, Sheila and Peter are going to talk to Jason Anker, who is an MBE and founder of Proud to be Safe. Jason talks about the impact that life outside work can have on safety and performance in the workplace. Many organisations still say that employees need to leave their problems at home and that this is not a work issue. Jason tells about his journey past and present as we focus this episode on the lived experience of what can happen when we are not focused on the psychological health, safety and welfare of our employees.

In this episode, Sheila and Peter talk with Su Chantry, Occupational Health Nurse Manager at Williams Racing. Su explains the role of occupational health services in psychosocial risk management and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing at work. Lastly, Su talks about the release of the new ISO 45003 standard.

In this episode, our hosts Sheila Lord and Peter Kelly speak with Dr Michael Drayton, an Executive Coach, Organisational Consultant and Clinical Psychologist, and author of the book Anti-burnout. Michael speaks about what is Burnout at the workplace and how that impacts our life. He defines Burnout as an occupational phenomenon caused by chronic stress.

If you're interested in purchasing Michael's book on Amazon, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-burnout-Create-Psychologically-High-performance-Organisation-ebook/dp/B08PKNC9K9

To get a copy of the free preview click here: https://www.bmrhealthandwellbeing.co.uk/resource-library

In this episode, Peter and Sheila talk with Claire Farrow, Global Director of Content, MADWorldSummit & makeadifference.media. Claire speaks about the work that she does and how she contributes to mental health wellbeing. She says that it is important for business leaders to train their staff and put in place programmes within their organisations for mental health wellbeing.

Our partners over at FlourishDx ran a fantastic live event a couple of weeks ago and we are happy to be able to share this content with you as a podcast if you didn’t get the chance to catch up with it. A great event with lots of fantastic insights from co-host Jason Van Schie, Peter Kelly and Mary Ann Baynton.

Peter and Mary Ann share the history of the development of the UK and Canadian standards, and we chat about ISO 45003, the new standard for workplace psychological health and safety.

In this episode, Peter and Sheila talk with Gerard Forlin. He is a health & safety and corporate governance specialist with a global client base in over 65 countries. Industries worked in include transport, aviation, mining and fire among others.

Gerard’s broad practice covers civil, criminal and commercial litigation.

In this episode, we discuss with Gerard regarding:

- Work he does in H&S

- His thoughts around the global impact on mental health as a result of the pandemic as people transition back into the workplace

- His work on ISO 45001

- His thoughts on ISO 45003

- Corporate responsibility and the use of the guidance standards

- His new book.

In this episode, Peter and Sheila talk with Sally Swingewood, lead standards development manager, BSI.

Sally has been involved in the development of the new ISO 45003 standard (with Peter of course). The standard has just been released and in this episode, Sally and Peter will talk about the development of the standard and the potential impact of this for businesses wanting to step up their workplace wellbeing strategy.

In this episode, we chat with Dr Gilda Scarfe, CEO and founder of positive ED.

Gilda tells us about positive psychology models -PERMA and SCARFE, and the narrative around negative mental health language.

Gilda speaks about the impact of covid on teachers/students and how to keep staff and students positive and well.

Finally, we have a chat about how to maintain positive psychological health in schools and advice for teachers and students.

In this episode, our hosts speak with Joelle Mitchell who is head of Psychological Health and Safety, Organisational psychologist, Podcaster and FlourishDx enthusiast.

The topics covered in this episode are:

- How to implement systemic programs for psych health

- Importance of leadership commitment

- Key factors for success

- Common pitfalls

The closing question is: What would be your advice to business leaders, H&S professionals regarding psychological health?

Thanks for listening