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Every leader can be taught to provide mental health support at work
By Joep van Agteren, PhD, Be Well Co | Written for Wellbeing Explained Substack | October 2026 Short answer: Leaders don’t need to be counsellors to support a team member who is struggling. They…
09 Nov 2026 4 min read
Workplace
Are Australian workplaces ready to support someone who is struggling?
October is both Mental Health Month and National Safe Work Month in Australia, and to mark the start of it our CEO, Dr Joep van Agteren, recorded a short video with a fairly sobering…
08 Oct 2026 3 min read
Workplace
What is Protect, Promote, Respond?
What is Protect, Promote, Respond? If you’ve been working on mental health in your workplace lately, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the phrase Protect, Promote, Respond. It’s a way of describing the…
08 Oct 2026 6 minute read
News
Introducing Wellbeing Explained
Today we’re launching Wellbeing Explained, a digital home where we invite experts to answer the questions others won’t, bust myths, and go deeper into the wellbeing science. Be Well Co sits in a unique…
04 Sep 2026
Wellbeing
Psychological safety vs psychosocial hazards: what’s the difference?
These two terms get used interchangeably in a lot of workplace conversations, and they’re not the same thing. They’re not really even the same category of thing. The short version: psychosocial hazards are conditions…
27 Aug 2026 5 min read
Wellbeing
What are psychosocial risks and hazards?
A psychosocial hazard is anything about the way work is designed, organised or managed that could harm someone’s mental or physical health. That definition does a lot of work, so it’s worth pausing on…
27 Aug 2026 5 min read