Follow the light or feel the burn! The pressure to attend to ‘whole-person’ safety and health in the workplace is turning up, with a particular focus on protecting employees’ mental health and wellbeing. With an increased sense of urgency, media coverage and the cacophony of training providers vying for your investment, it is easy to become overwhelmed. This thirty-minute lunchtime presentation is designed to bring you back down to earth. To provide you with an introduction to the latest WA Code of Practice on mentally healthy workplaces for resources and construction sectors, give some insight to the regulators expectations and share a few things that typically get in the way of very capable people, taking positive action.

About our speaker, Amy Douglas-Martens

Amy is a registered psychologist with a Masters in Clinical Psychology. She has been practising psychology for many years in both heavy industry and clinical mental health care settings. Amy is currently employed in a regulatory role by the Department of Mining Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS), as the Special Inspector of Mines – Mental health and wellbeing for WA, a role in which she focusses on psychosocial risk management (including development of the code of practice), and application of Human Factors discipline to regulation of mining and extractive resources. Amy maintains involvement in the ‘pointy-end’ of mental health in our community by working as a clinician for the health department.

** Please BYO lunch **