Psych Health And Safety Podcast

The UK Psych Health & Safety Podcast

Your regular hosts are Sheila Lord and Dr. Jacqui Wilmshurst, who for more than a decade, has pioneered the design and implementation of Psychological Health & Safety strategy, policy and interventions in organisations of all sizes and across diverse industries. As hosts of the Psych Health and Safety Podcast, they deliver insights from the health psychology podcast in a jargon-free way that is easy to understand and implement, making this the workplace wellbeing podcast you need.

Redefining Productivity, the Four-Day Working Week - with Yasmin Mackay and Kevin Belgrove

Redefining Productivity, the Four-Day Working Week - with Yasmin Mackay and Kevin Belgrove

In this edition of the UK Psych Health and Safety Podcast, Sheila and Jacqui are joined by Kevin Belgrove and Yasmin Mackay, from Grant Instruments.

They are discussing the innovative implementation of a four-day working week at Grant Instruments and explore the motivations, challenges, and outcomes of transitioning to a shorter work week.

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Season 2 Episode 3: What Next for Workplace Wellbeing?
Season 2 Episode 1: Welcome to the new UK Psych Health and Safety Podcast
E50: Wellbeing Fluff or Legal Requirement? - With Roy Magara

E50: Wellbeing Fluff or Legal Requirement? - With Roy Magara

For the 50th episode of the Workplace and Wellbeing Podcast, Sheila Lord is speaking to Roy Magara.

Roy is an employment solicitor advocate for Magara Law which represents both employers and employees in cases surrounding mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

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E48: Crossover Episode - The Healthy Team - With Mindy Gibbins-Klein

E48: Crossover Episode - The Healthy Team - With Mindy Gibbins-Klein

In this special crossover episode Sheila Lord is speaking to Mindy Gibbins Klein, who hosts The Thoughtful Leader Podcast, about mental health in the workplace and how organisations can introduce mental health support programmes, all of which have a definitive return on investment.

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E46: Crossover Episode - Perfect is the Enemy of Progress – with Adam Clarke

E46: Crossover Episode - Perfect is the Enemy of Progress – with Adam Clarke

The well-being of the employees is the key to everything that an organisation stands for. Well-being of staff covers both physical and psychological health. We don’t function well without both.

This week, in a special crossover episode, Sheila has been talking to Adam Clarke of Praxis42 about the benefits of investing in well-being, building skills, being a manager, communication, comfort zones, and much more.

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E45: Management Development is Essential - With Derek Mowbray

E45: Management Development is Essential - With Derek Mowbray

This week on the UK Psych Health & Safety Podcast, Sheila Lord is joined by Derek Mowbray, Director at The Management Advisory Service (MAS), and a charted psychologist who is passionate about building and sustaining positive work cultures.

They are discussing how leaders and managers can build and sustain cultures and exhibit behaviours that lead to trust, commitment and engagement, and as a consequence produce high-level performance in individuals and their organisations.

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E43: The Importance of Measuring Well-Being - with Richard Heron

E43: The Importance of Measuring Well-Being - with Richard Heron

This week on the UK Psych Health & Safety podcast, Sheila Lord and Peter Kelly are speaking to Richard Heron.

Richard has worked as the chief medical officer and the global head of health for British Petroleum for the last 16 years. He’s a member of the national forum for health and safety, the National Health Service expert advisory group for health and wellbeing, and also an Honorary Fellow at Nottingham University.

Throughout this episode, they dive into numerous aspects of well-being in the workplace, and what organisations can do to improve well-being in the workplace.

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E41: Workplace Wellbeing with Kevin Daniels

E41: Workplace Wellbeing with Kevin Daniels

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode Sheila Lord and Peter Kelly are talking to Kevin Daniels, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of East Anglia, about how as employers we go about prioritising the business case for wellbeing.

Kevin also tells us about a recent project he has been involved in - Evolve Workplace Wellbeing. This is a toolkit of free, evidence-informed workplace wellbeing resources that draws upon cutting edge research, and insider insights so that you can take action to help your business evolve and thrive.

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E40: Crossover Episode - People: Everyone's Business - With Lisa LLoyd
E:39 Crossover Episode - Rebranding Safety - With James MacPherson

E:39 Crossover Episode - Rebranding Safety - With James MacPherson

This week Sheila joins James MacPherson Managing Director and Chief Operational Risk Consultant @ RiskFluent on his Rebranding Safety podcast.

Amongst over things they are discussing where mental health sits within an organisation and who has responsibility for it, ISO’s (how and who), behaviour and culture change and they give their thoughts on how mental health is currently being dealt with.

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E30: Improving and Transforming Organisational Cultures with David Liddle

E30: Improving and Transforming Organisational Cultures with David Liddle

In this episode, Sheila Lord and Peter Kelly are talking to David Liddle about organisational cultures. What a good organisational culture should look like and how we go about creating better ones.

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