PsyHealth WorXs
Psychosocial Health Prevention and Work Standards
Do you want to learn how you can manage psychosocial risks in your company?
EIT Health’s PsyHealth WorXs is an online training for health professionals and executives on how to conduct a psychosocial risk assessment in their companies to maintain a happy and healthy work force.
We will guide you through the seven steps of psychosocial risk assessment, present you the latest research findings, share insights and tips from practitioners, and skills to adapt the lessons learned to your specific context.
Registrations to this programme are ongoing. You can register whenever you are ready!
What you get
IMPROVE YOUR WORKPLACE
Learn how to conduct a psychosocial risk assessment to manage psychosocial risks in your company
ON-DEMAND EDUCATION
Access the online training with step-by-step instructions to follow at your own pace with subtitles in different languages
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Utilise expert interviews, practical checklists and exchange forum to enable and support optimal application in your own job
Curriculum
This MOOC will cover the following topics:
- Week 1: The need for psychosocial risk assessment – scientific foundations and legal obligations, what is work-related stress
- Week 2: The process of psychosocial risk assessment, obstacles that may inhibit it, preparation, and first steps of the assessment
- Week 3: Methods for the assessment of work characteristics, how to evaluate the outcome of the assessment
- Week 4: Evaluation, definition, and implementation of interventions. Examples of interventions in different branches
- Week 5: Methods for the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions
- Week 6: Documentation and of the assessment and the process of updating and continuation
Eligibility Requirements
This programme is for the following profiles who have an active involvement in occupational health and safety as part of their job:
- Healthcare professionals
- Healthcare executives
- Entrepreneurs and innovators
- Start-ups or SMEs
Learning Outcomes
After the course you’ll be able to explain:
- What is work-related stress
- Why should you conduct a psychosocial risk assessment
- Scientific foundations and legal obligations in psychosocial risk assessment
- Obstacles to psychosocial risk assessment
- Assessment of work characteristics and evaluation as risks
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions
- Documenting and continuing the process
- Insights from practitioners
Get in contact
Partners
RWTH Aachen University
Universitätsklinikum Aachen
Maastricht University
Faculdade de Medicina - University of Lisbon
University of Luxembourg
DKV Servicios
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Gothenburg
Institut Català de la Salut (ICS)
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Consorci Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunye (IDIBAPS)
University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Atelierul de Idei
