Market Insight: Workplace Mental Health As A Hidden Operational Risk For EHS
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Executive Summary
This report examines how psychosocial risks are emerging as a critical component of EHS management and explains why organizations need to integrate them into existing safety and risk management frameworks. Psychosocial risks, often treated as a lower-priority workforce wellbeing issue, are becoming a more visible and material EHS concern. Changing work patterns, rising job demands and growing recognition of the links between psychosocial factors, human performance and safety outcomes are driving organizations to adopt more systematic approaches to identification, assessment and control. Beyond wellbeing impacts, unmanaged psychosocial risks can undermine productivity, workforce resilience, safety performance and business continuity. Growing regulatory expectations, economic pressures and frameworks such as Total Worker Health are prompting organizations to manage these hazards with the same rigour applied to other workplace risks.
Figure 1. Workforce demographics and mental health risk exposure
Figure 2. Business costs of poor employee mental health
Figure 3. Regional regulatory landscape for workplace mental health
About the Authors
April Choy
Industry Analyst
April is an Industry Analyst at Verdantix, specializing in EHS&Q software and emerging technologies. She helps organizations navigate complex technology decisions, providi...
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Nathan Goldstein
Senior Manager
Nathan is a Senior Manager at Verdantix, specializing in EHS software and the convergence of sustainability, EHS and operational risk. He leads research that helps corporate d...
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