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

Termin
18.08. – 20.08.2027
Beginn erster Seminartag: 10:00 Uhr
Ende letzter Seminartag: 16:00 Uhr
Hinweis
Dieses Seminar ist ohne Übernachtung vorgesehen.
Ort
10179 Berlin (b+b), ver.di Bildung + Beratung Gemmeinnützige GmbH
Seminarnummer
1301-2708181
Teilnehmendenkreis
Works council members
Freistellung
Section 37 Article 6 Works Constitution Act
Kostenübernahme
Section 40 Article 1 Works Constitution Act
Seminargebühr
1.290,00 EUR
Hinzu kommen die Kosten der Tagungsstätte.
Tagungsstättenkosten
Ohne Übernachtung: 135,00 EUR inkl. MwSt.
Kontakt
ver.di-b+b-Büro Berlin-Brandenburg
Tel. 030 2840664-00
info.berlin@verdi-bub.de
- Tel. 030 2840664-00
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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

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