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Mental health and psychosocial risks

If school management, teachers and other school employees act professionally and with awareness of their physical and mental health, they have a positive influence on the school climate and the quality of teaching. The students in particular benefit from this.

Developing schools with mental health. A resource for school leaders and the basis for MindMatters' in-depth modules for teachers.

The European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training organisation (EfVET) has released the ‘Well-Being of Managers in leading the Green and Digital Transitions’ position paper.
The document focuses on relevant occupational safety and health (OSH) topics for EfVET members and for VET schools’ managers across Europe.

The web platform offers tools for teachers and professionals to delve deeper into the topics of addiction and mental health with young people and to promote their life skills.

The MindMatters program promotes talking about one's own and other people's feelings, participation, mindfulness and friendship with peers, as well as solidarity with the class and the school.

High school students encourage each other to deal with stress in a healthy way.

Risk assessment guide to help employers, in consultation with the recognised trade unions, assess the extent of harm that may be caused by the Ofsted process and take practical steps to minimise these risks.

Fit for Life is UNESCO's sport-based flagship designed to accelerate COVID-19 recovery, support inclusive and integrated policy making, and enhance the wellbeing of youth around the world.

This guide is intended to guide schools and colleges in England to take action to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of staff in education settings.

A report on wellbeing at work in the UK, to explore how wellbeing varies between occupations, how wellbeing changed over time across different occupations, how salary affects wellbeing and how the pandemic affected wellbeing.

The group reporting the highest levels of loneliness in the UK is young people. Loneliness is increasingly recognised as a serious public health concern with robust links to mental and physical health, use of health and care services and early mortality.

Education Support supports individuals and help schools, colleges and universities to improve the mental health and wellbeing of their staff. Research and advocate for changes in Government policy for the benefit of the education workforce are also carried out.

This report presents the findings of a national study examining working life in UK Higher Education institutions.

The safety and health of teachers is a priority of ETUCE. ETUCE believes a school should be a safe, healthy and propitious place for teaching and learning. Schools are the workplace of teachers, but first and foremost they are educational institutions for young students.

Health-promoting leadership training in day-care centres.

Complete administrative tasks faster and easier. Reduce workload and achieve more time with the children.

No education without health: On site advisement in the BGWmobil truck on the subject of safety and health

During the first Corona lockdown in spring 2020, there were increasing reports of domestic violence. Many children and young people urgently needed help. To support young people in need, the “krisenchat” (crisis chat) was set up.Young people are advised on their worries and problems: at any time, free of charge and confidentially. Professionals with good education and a lot of experience work in the chat.

For more than ten years, the prevention program "Treasure Hunt", developed by the Hamburg Working Group for Health Promotion e.V. (HAG), has been successfully implemented in day-care centers to strengthen the resilience and mental health of children.

FARMRes “Farmers Assistance Resources for Mental Resilience” is an Erasmus+ project aiming to raise awareness and capacity for farmers to cope with mental health issues.

Frontline workers in health, education and law enforcement provide essential services directly to the public.
They often work with people facing online safety issues and have a unique opportunity to help their patients, students or clients.

The Utah State Board of Education (USBE), in coordination with stakeholders, has made Safe and Healthy Schools a board priority. The Utah School Safety Framework includes 9 Conditions that schools may follow to create comprehensive safe and healthy school policies, plans, protocols, and partnerships.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a forceful reminder that education plays an important role in delivering not just academic learning, but also in supporting physical and emotional well-being. Balancing traditional “book learning” with broader social and personal development means new roles for schools and education more generally.

What is the nature of childhood today? On a number of measures, modern children’s lives have clearly improved thanks to better public safety and support for their physical and mental health. New technologies help children to learn, socialise and unwind, and older, better-educated parents are increasingly playing an active role in their children's education.

This document highlights best practice pre COVID-19 and provides new information concerning what is a rapidly evolving situation. It was informed by a review of research, evidence-informed resources and tools offered by professional bodies, and a webinar involving experts on work and wellbeing.

ONYA is a free online game-based wellness application. The term ONYA comes from New Zealand and is short for "Good on you!", which means something like "Well done!". The English language version of ONYA was originally developed in New Zealand by the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.

This report presents the findings of a national study examining working life in UK Higher Education institutions.

UCEA and the HE trade unions have developed this stress and mental wellbeing resources pack for HE institutions.

Are your students receiving quality physical education each day? A quality PE program that meets national guidelines is the cornerstone for a physically active school and helps support improved classroom behavior, physical fitness, and standardized test scores.

Move! is a national physical functional capacity monitoring and feedback system for Finnish 5th and 8th grade pupils. It produces information that can be combined with the extensive health check-ups performed for the 5th and 8th grade pupils. The main purpose of the system is to encourage pupils to independently take care of their physical functional capacity.

This Framework is aimed at the needs of school-age learners and the workforce supporting their learning and well-being needs.

Zavarovalnica Triglav, d.d. implements a number of measures to manage and prevent MSDs in the organisation. The company maintains that it is critical to raise awareness and encourage employees to live a healthy lifestyle.

Help for drawing up a modern substance abuse programme based on the organization’s needs.

The “Supporting mental health at work” material provides supervisors with competence and confidence for building a work community that promotes mental health.

Resources and motivation for the second half of your career.

The 12 months Certificate in Community based Work with Children and Youth is offered from the Department of Community Development, Psycho-social and Behavioral Sciences. The aim of this programme is to enhance effectiveness in working with children at risk and to give students knowledge, skills and information to study key trends, theories and approaches in working with vulnerable groups.

Charlie Waller is one the UK’s most respected mental health charities, founded by the family of Charlie Waller who took his own life in 1997 whilst suffering from depression. The charity helps young people to understand their own mental health, to equip them to support themselves and those around them, and to empower them to talk more openly about the subject.

Promotion of mental health through education

Originally from Australia, MindMatters is a school based programme for the promotion of mental health in secondary schools ...

A comic character for safety and health

Upsi is a comic character, created by the Accident Insurance Berlin ...

Improve the mental health and wellbeing of children

KidsMatter aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children, reduce mental health problems amongst children, and achieve greater support for children ...

BGN – Statutory Accident Insurance for the food and restaurant business Germany

Working in the hospitality industry is marked by a high degree of emotional work. Handling guests, their complaints and special wishes requires good nerves and often brings about stress, time pressure and hectic.

Master in Occupational Hazards (Risks) Management and Master in Construction Safety Management and Coordination

The University of Salamanca, Spain, provides different types of studies in occupational safety and health with the specialisation Master in Occupational Hazards (Risks) Management or Master in Construction Safety Management and Coordination.

This website offers information on many different hazards at work, training courses on various topics, frequently asked questions and the possibility to ask questions.

Training and meditation for mental health at school, at home and at the workplace. A free App is offered, as well as a schools program and training for everyone.

To stimulate actions improving behaviours which lead to conditions of psychophysical well-being, getting over situations of discomfort and uneasiness. To support information and prevention of risk behaviours and the abuse of drugs.

The Healthy school Planner is an online tool designed to help Canadian schools create healthier environments. It offers individual schools a way to assess the overall state of their environment as well as the choice to further explore one or more specific topics such as healthy eating, physical activity, positive mental health or tobacco.

Work is important to our well-being. In addition to the income it brings, it can be a big part of our identity, how we understand our skills, and a way to contribute to something bigger.

This toolkit has been designed to promote positive mental health practices and perspectives within the school environment. The toolkit was developed for the Pan- Canadian Joint Consortium for school Health by Dr.

This programme, developed by EXPERTIS, Prague, was supposed to help elder employees to deal with changes in their life and work environment. This programme has different target groups ...

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The H.O.W. education programme focuses on educating persons who understand the value of health and strives at responding to practical life situations.

This initiative developed Guides for Mental Health at the Work and documented good practice in managing psychosocial risks in the workplace. 22 European countries were involved in the project.

Stress at work accounts for a high percentage of lost working days, and the number of people suffering from stress-related conditions is increasing. Napo identifies some of the causes of stress at work in his traditional humorous style including excessive demands, low control, constant pressure, unacceptable behaviour, lack of respect, change, bad planning and contradictory instructions which lead to errors, fatigue, burnout, exhaustion and poor performance.

HeiaHeia is an App to promote physical activities at workplaces and schools.

As part of a three-year sustainable development plan entitled ‘Eco-Citizen Development’, which began in 2008, Armor extended its health and safety policy. The new policy was aimed at improving well-being by reducing psychosocial and ergonomic risks.

ANKe offers preventive and supervisory support for promotion of integral (body, mind and spirit) development of children primarily through the medium of exercise. ...

With this project it was possible to improve the personal health behaviour of the employees, especially older workers. ...

Participants (managers) develop strategies in two day seminars to healthily treat themselves (stress coping, relaxation after leaving off work etc.) and to lead their employees healthily as well (appreciation, acknowledgement, interest, social support, etc.

In the first year basic knowledge in the fields of law, administrative sciences, social policy, pedagogic, psychology, sociology, statistics, public health, social medicine, biology, are taught.

Health includes physical, mental and social well-being. Mental stress is part of working life. However, the increase in days off work and early retirement due to mental health issues is alarming.

OUTWARD BOUND offers schools, colleges and interested young people powerful learning experiences - outdoors. We focus on the educational objectives and develop mental needs with programmes that change lives, build teams and transform schools.

Gut Drauf (In a good mood) is a program of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) to improve the health of girls and boys between 12 and 18 years. One special focus called Tutmirgut is aimed at children aged 5 to 11 years.

In the reading story "Upsi visits the magician" children and their adult readers are encouraged to make feelings about the topic.

To stimulate actions improving behaviours which lead to conditions of psychophysical well-being, ...

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health (IJOSH) is an international peer reviewed journal covering occupational health, safety and health.

The "Arbocatalogus" provides practical information on how to achieve the desired level of healthy and safe working in hairdressing salons. This concerns physical stress, allergenic effects and psychosocial stress.

The Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council has launched its first Workplace Mental Well-being Campaign on 9 December 2021 ...

The Toolkit is a free resource. It brings together information, guidance, fact sheets, case studies, training materials, presentations and more to help you tackle occupational health problems.

Founded by Martyn Reah, #teacher5aday is a huge connection between teachers to keep the conversation going around mental and physical wellbeing.

The ETM Network is part of the Every Teacher Matters Project, founded by Suneta Bagri. The project consists of Coaching, Personal Development, Wellbeing Workshops alongside a range of other services, providing wellbeing support to schools and teachers.

There are little things we can all do to help look after our mental health. Having good mental health helps us relax more, achieve more and enjoy our lives more. We have expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental health and wellbeing, so discover what works for you.

The Als's Pals package includes a comprehensive curriculum and two days of extensive workshop training for teachers, instructional assistants, administrators, and resource specialists such as education coordinators, guidance counselors, and school psychologists.

A helpful article about remote work and mental health, with information for remote workers in time of pandemic and useful tips for mental health and healthy behavior.

The Flanders Institute of Healthy Living launched a new tool to increase the mental resilience of adolescents (NokNok). Using a combination of online coaching, mental health tips, and exercises, it motivates and stimulates adolescents to strengthen their mental wellbeing and resilience.

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