The Danish knowledge centre for health and safety (Danish: Videncenter for Arbejdsmiljø) has assembled the best knowledge and a number of tools to support workplaces in implementing good and systematic efforts to ensure good well-being, as mental health and safety matters a great deal for our health and sickness absence in general. Download the quick guide (only in Danish).
A leaflet from Arbejdsmedicinsk Klinik (The Occupational Medicine Clinic) in Herning details all the phases of a stress-related illness. The aim of the leaflet is to detail all the stages of a stress-related illness and to provide concrete advice and tools. Among other things, it explains how a manager can initiate contact with an employee suffering from stress and how to ensure a successful dialogue. It also provides answers on what to do if an employee does not want to admit that they are suffering from stress and how to deal with guilt and shame on the part of the employee. Read more here (only in Danish).
As a new toolkit for stress prevention, the BFA has created “Forebyg stress i fællesskab” (Preventing Stress Together) especially for schools, educational and research institutions. The tools have been designed to create insight, dialogue and inspiration in the workplace and to help you find concrete solutions to challenges in stress prevention work. The tools have been gathered together in a new toolkit that can be downloaded here (only in Danish).
Research by the National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NFA) indicates that three types of intervention in particular are good for improving mental health and safety. This could be if you:
- Organise your working time in a more flexible way.
- Increase employees’ influence over their own work.
- Introduce new graduates to their new workplace.
A review of the research as well as tools and inspiration for initiating the three types of intervention can be found in the report Psychosocial Work Environment Interventions – What Works? A systematic review of research on interventions targeting the psychosocial work environment and a review of knowledge on the implementation of workplace interventions from 2017. The report can be downloaded from the NFA website.