Safe Work Month and Mental Health Week is here!
Safe Work Month and Queensland Mental Health Week are initiatives dedicated to promoting safe, healthy workplaces and supporting mental health and wellbeing for everyone, while also raising awareness and reducing stigma around mental illness.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the exciting Safe Work Month and Mental Health Week events this October.
These events provide an excellent opportunity to reinforce your commitment to workplace health and safety, mental health and wellbeing, rehabilitation, and best practice return-to-work outcomes, while benefiting from the expertise of keynote speakers.
Go to Safe Work Month and Mental Health Week 2025 for the full list of events.
Queensland Mental Health Week events
Mental Health in the Agriculture industry webinar – 8 October (online, FREE)
Join us for a free webinar during Queensland Mental Health Week, spotlighting psychosocial hazards in rural and regional industries.
Program and speaker highlights:
- Addressing psychosocial hazards in rural Queensland, Dr Tim Driscoll (clinical psychologist and state manager of mental health at Royal Flying Doctor Service)
- Panel discussion: Practical strategies for safer rural workplaces, with Ruth Thompson (Grain policy director at AgForce Queensland) and Dr Tim Driscoll.
Queensland Mental Health Week Breakfast – 9 October (Brisbane)
Join us in person during Mental Health Week for a breakfast event hosted by MC and Mental Health Ambassador Hayley Lewis, featuring keynote presentations on promoting positive mental health in the workplace.
Program and speaker highlights:
- Psychosafe workplaces: Unlocking resilience, wellbeing and high performance
Belinda Straughan Winks (organisation development consultant)
- Lived experience: Creating mentally healthy work environments
Bill Martin, safety advocate and mental health first aid responder
- Evidence-based strategies for resilience, wellbeing and peak performance
Dr Darren Morton, author, director and professor at Avondale University, director of the Lift Project.
Safe Work Month Events
Work Well Conference – Brisbane, 23 October
The full-day conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) focuses on connection, collaboration, and learning. Enjoy an impressive speaker lineup followed by a networking function.
Topics include:
- Psychosocial risk management
- Navigating the psychological impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Preventing work-related violence and aggression
- Frontline leadership and effective risk management
- Reimagining return-to-work through innovation and collaboration.
Last year’s conference sold out—secure your tickets today to guarantee your spot!
Work Well Regional Breakfast – Mackay, 29 October
We’re bringing three speakers from the Work Well Conference to Mackay to share their expertise with regional workplaces. Join us for a breakfast event to learn, network, and exchange ideas with industry peers.
Topics include:
- Frontline leadership and effective risk management
- Psychosocial risk management
- Lived experience: Just another day.
Resources
Keep health and safety top of mind all year round. Go to Resources for more information.