Developed by the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum and organisational psychologist Dr Hillary Bennett of Leading Safety, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Framework helps business leaders and organisations to make sense of how to meet obligations to prevent mental harm at work.

The framework offers a holistic approach to workplace design that looks beyond just reducing or eliminating risks in the workplace and providing people with help when harm has occurred, to providing people with support and building resilience to proactively protect people from harm.

There are four approaches in the framework which cover the areas businesses can work in to support and protect their people affected by mental ill-health, as well as the areas businesses can proactively work in to protect and foster mental health at work.

An effective mental health and wellbeing strategy will use all four approaches.