I am writing to thank and congratulate you on the excellent training session you delivered for our team on psychosocial safety in the workplace. The feedback from both staff and Board members who attended was overwhelmingly positive!

Staff were particularly grateful for the opportunity to apply their learning in small groups, discussing the various psychosocial hazards they have encountered at Endeavour, along with existing strategies to manage those hazards and new ideas to increase safety. Apart from the important awareness-raising that occurred from these activities, we have been able to continue this work since the workshop by collating the team’s responses, identifying our priorities (as a team) and working on collective strategies to address some of those hazards. This process has helped to embed an understanding within the team that we are all responsible, both individually and collectively, for creating and maintaining a safe workplace.

The group session also provided me with some valuable insights regarding the issues that have been creating the greatest concern for staff. As a manager, it was helpful to be able to identify any assumptions I had made in this regard, and to replace those assumptions with the ‘first-hand’ responses from the team that were generated through the group activities.

Finally, the inclusion of a drumming session was a wonderful way to tie in the theory and conversations with an activity that demonstrated the value of self-care, team work, fun and creativity within the broader context of psychosocial safety.