In its quest to improve workforce well-being and psychosocial health, meQuilibrium (meQ), the leading digital employee resilience platform, has partnered with The Opus Centre for Psychosocial Risk. This collaboration aims to create a new integrated psychosocial health solution that identifies hazards and takes action on workforce impairments before they impact the bottom line.
Addressing Psychosocial Hazards
The new meQ/Opus Centre psychosocial health integrated solution helps companies efficiently and effectively identify and address psychosocial hazards. These hazards include incivility, harassment, lack of influence at work, mistrust, lack of recognition, and other psychological factors that can negatively affect employee mental and physical health.
- Identification of Hazards: Detects critical psychosocial hazards within the workplace.
- Action Plans and Training: Provides actionable plans, training, and interventions.
- Managerial Support: Equips managers with insights and tools to protect employees and build supportive skills targeting risks.
Importance of Psychosocial Risk Management
Many companies are recognizing the importance of identifying and mitigating psychosocial risks as employee stress, burnout, and poor mental health are often root causes of performance and productivity issues. Several countries, including Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and those in the European Union, have established ISO standards and regulations requiring employers to assess and manage psychosocial hazards.
Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, stated, “We are pleased to partner with The Opus Centre to expand our capabilities in solving our customers’ critical psychosocial health challenges. This end-to-end solution enables meQ to efficiently identify and address psychosocial risks in the workforce, and detect the root causes of these risks to engagement, performance, and well-being. Then, Opus provides personalized team training and coaching to mitigate psychosocial hazards that harm employee mental health.”
Expertise of The Opus Centre
Based in Australia, a leader in requiring psychosocial risk management, The Opus Centre brings decades of experience in managing psychosocial risk. Their organizational psychologists are global innovators in the field. Dr. Tessa Bailey, director of The Opus Centre, is a pre-eminent expert in psychological safety risk management and interventions.
Combined Strengths for Enhanced Well-being
meQ’s clinically validated psychosocial risk assessment tools, combined with The Opus Centre’s network of organizational psychologists providing live remediation services, bring meaningful insights that help organizations understand psychosocial risks, identify hazards, and develop strategies. These strategies include tailored training and solutions for creating psychologically safe work systems.
Dr. Tessa Bailey emphasized, “We are delighted to bring our international expertise in helping organizations proactively develop and deploy a systematic and evidence-based approach which includes tailored training and interventions to create psychologically healthy and safe workplaces. Together with meQ, we can identify the critical risks to health outcomes in specific workplaces and offer clear guidance and a unified response to prevent these risks from becoming hazards.”
The partnership between meQuilibrium and The Opus Centre represents a significant step forward in addressing psychosocial health challenges in the workplace. By leveraging their combined expertise and innovative solutions, they are helping companies create safer, healthier, and more productive work environments.
