Living with COVID-19: helping to create healthy workplaces
08 Apr 2022
For many of us in the veterinary profession, COVID-19 has brought sustained pressure at work. These pressures include longer working hours, more complex decision making with increased time pressure, support for people in distress, juggling work with home life, homeschooling or caring responsibilities.
These pressures are on top of the underlying health impacts, social impacts and uncertainty that COVID-19 has brought to the entire community.
A new series of guides from the National Mental Health Commission and the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance provides workplaces with expert guidance on these key issues.
Guides that may be useful for veterinary workplaces are:
- Strategies to support wellbeing of decision makers through periods of sustained pressure
- Identifying and managing fatigue and burnout during COVID-19
- The hidden impact of COVID-19 and sleep
- Responding to varied COVID-19 concerns in the workplace
- Supporting people experiencing post-COVID-19 syndrome
Click here for a full list of all of the resources available from the Mental Health Commission around mentally healthy workplaces during COVID–19.