Mental health risks in the workplace: Advanced knowledge for works councils
Initiating and implementing risk assessment
This advanced training course presents tried and tested procedures for assessing mental health risks in the workplace. These procedures effectively combat working conditions that cause physical and mental illness.
The training course also discusses ways that works councils can conduct risk assessments that fulfil their requirement to supervise working conditions, and it explores options to involve employees in the process.
Participants will acquire the skills they need to initiate and supervise risk assessment for mental health.
The training course at a glance:
- Assessment of past and present stressors at the company
- Mental health risks in the workplace
- Risk assessment: methods, tools, criteria, actors
- Steps in the risk assessment procedure: organisational requirements, documenting health hazards, assessing results; defining, implementing, documenting and monitoring measures
- Works council activities in this context; enforcing co-determination rights
- Employee participation and instruction
- Works agreements: Key points, review of existing agreements
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Zielgruppe
Works council members -
Freistellung
Section 37 Article 6 Works Constitution Act
Refresher: Basic understanding of mental health risks
Previous experience with mental health risks, risk assessments (particularly regarding mental health risks); obstacles and challenges
Co-determination rights and their enforcement
Criteria and key areas relating to mental health risks (work tasks, work organisation, social relationships, leadership, cooperation and diversity, age and gender aspects)
Steps in the risk assessment process:
- Preparation, necessary infrastructure
- Identification of risks
- Assessment of the results
- Development of measures
- Implementation, monitoring of implementation and evaluation
Methods and tools for assessing mental health risks:
- Written questionnaires
- Observational interviews/interviews
- Workshops/group discussions/health circles
- Survey tools (presentation of specific examples)
Framework, requirements for implementation (anonymity, data protection, sources of information, qualifications of those carrying out the assessment, GDA guidelines)
External support: Where to obtain it, how to steer it in the required direction
Further strategies within the establishment: Involving employees, convincing the employer, enforcing co-determination, initiating specific preventive measures
How can the works council help steer the process of risk assessment for mental health risks (including the adjacent measures) within the establishment?
Possible content for works agreements; review of existing agreements
Termine
| 07.12. – 09.12.2026 Berlin | Berlin (b+b) | weitere Infos | Anmeldung | |
| 18.08. – 20.08.2027 Berlin | Berlin (b+b) | weitere Infos | Anmeldung |
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