How can trade unions prevent mental health issues at work?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 business studies and social science.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Mélanie Dufour-Poirier, a researcher at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is studying the role of social delegates for addressing and preventing workplace mental health issues.
• This resource also contains an interview with Mélanie and offers an insight into careers in labour relations. If your students have questions for Mélanie, they can send them to her online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Mélanie will reply!
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Mélanie research and challenges them to design a mental health action plan to improve mental health in their school.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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