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Join us online. Dr Hillary Bennett, Director of Leading Safety, will present on what boards and CEOs need to know and do to support a mentally healthy workplace that protects people and prevents mental harm.
Everyone who goes to work should go home safe and healthy both physically and mentally. Ensuring this is a legal obligation that creates opportunities. The challenge for any organisation is to protect and prevent harm (physical and mental) so that people thrive and the business succeeds.
Dr Hillary Bennett, is a registered psychologist and Director of Leading Safety, a consultancy specialising in the leadership of safety and wellbeing. Hillary developed the Business’ Leaders Health and Safety Forum’s CEO Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work. This sense-making framework has been used extensively, in both Governmental Agencies and private organisations. She also developed the Forum’s Protecting Mental Wellbeing at Work Guide, which outlines the importance of both psychosocial risk assessment and importance in incorporating proactive factors of mental wellbeing through work redesign.
In this online presentation Hillary will review the CEO Forum’s Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work framework of 4 approaches to creating a mentally healthy workplace that enables an organisation to meet its legal obligations as well maximise the opportunities to support its people to thrive.
Hillary is a registered Psychologist with the New Zealand Psychology Board. She spent 33 years teaching organisational psychology, at a graduate and post graduate level, at universities in South Africa, Canada, and New Zealand. She has worked as both an internal and external consultant to a wide range of private, government and non-government organisations, across many sectors in New Zealand and Australia.
Currently Hillary is a Director of Leading Safety, a consultancy specialising in the leadership of safety and wellbeing. She developed both the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum’s mental health and work guides. She supported WorkSafe establish its Mentally Healthy Work team. She was the Convenor of the NZ Standards group for the Draft International Standard ISO/DIS 45003 Occupational Health and safety management – Psychological health and safety at work: manging psychosocial risk – Guidelines. She is the Oceania Regional Representative for the ISO/Technical Committee 283 Occupational Health and Safety Management.
In 2019 she was awarded the New Zealand SafeGuard Lifelong Contribution to Health and Safety Award.
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Michelle Branford
Otago Southland Branch Manager
+64 20 4183 5664
michelle.branford@iod.org.nz
The Otago Southland Branch acknowledges the generous support of
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