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Training leaders to better support the mental health of their teams is one of the most effective steps an organisation can take to mitigate psychosocial risk, a researcher says.

Dr Aimee Gayed, a postdoctoral research fellow with Black Dog Institute's workplace mental health research team, has evaluated multiple programs and approaches to determine where employers can achieve the most impact from their workplace mental health investments.

Gayed and her colleagues divide mental health risks into three categories: organisational factors; team factors; and individual job-level factors. She says that addressing team-level factors via manager training is the best "starting point", because upskilling managers can reduce risk across all three levels...