Zenergy Men’s Health Australia 2021 Breakfast Forum

Zenergy Safety, Health & Wellbeing would like to thank everyone who attended the Men’s Health Week Australia 2021 panel discussion event hosted in partnership with Mantle on June 16th. The event saw a series of thought provoking, warm and practical presentations from the key speakers, as well as insightful questions and heartfelt testimony from the 100+ Safety professionals who attended.

David Burroughs, Co-Founder of Mantle, outlined the extent of mental health issues for men in Australia and the avoidable toll that this can take. In particular he highlighted the obstacles associated with addressing these issues for men, such as their reluctance to seek or continue to get help and how this can be addressed.

“Contrary to popular belief men do talk. They do talk about mental health, they’re just not talking to the right people and they are not talking early enough,”

David’s presentation can be viewed here.

Belinda Flynn, General Manager Safety, Health and Sustainability, continued this theme with insights into the specific challenges faced by workers in the Transport and Logistics sector and her work with the Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds foundation is addressing this. Belinda spoke compellingly about how factors, such as fatigue and isolation, can effect workers in her sector and what the foundation is doing in terms of Training, Standards and Wellness.

Belinda’s presentation can be viewed here and, for more information about Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds, please visit their website at healthyheads.org.au

Brian Long, General Manager Safety, Health & Wellbeing at Woolworths spoke on the importance of resilience in the modern enterprise, specifically because of the greater role that volatility is playing in our day to day lives. Brian made the point that even though we have increasingly optimised enterprise operations, we are more exposed than ever to extreme, unplanned events such as COVID, bushfires or flooding. We can’t always prepare fully for such events, which makes the need for resilient workforce more important than ever.

Brian’s presentation can be viewed here.