Despite the war, millions of Ukrainians continue to work. Stress, psychological traumas and other difficulties that workers face worsen their quality of life, reduce productivity and increase the risk of work-related accidents.

Psychosocial support at the workplace policy and programme help preserve workers’ mental health and business resilience in war and post-war times. To advocate their development and implementation, the ILO Project’s contribution is as follows:

• 200 labour inspectors, 70 representatives of trade unions, employers, Secretariat of the National Tripartite Socio-Economic Council trained.
• Series of informational materials for workers, employers, trade unions, labour inspectors on psychosocial support at the workplace in war and post-war times developed in consultation with national partners. Materials are available on the SLS portal pratsia.in.ua (in Ukrainian).
• Piloting of the psychosocial support programmes at the enterprise level has been launched.

Reports of the trainings

• January 2023: trainings for trainers on psychological first aid
• July 2022: trainings for labour inspectors, representatives of employers’ associations, trade unions, staff of the Secretariat of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council
• June 2022: trainings for the Secretariat of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council and social partners
• April-May 2022: trainings for labour inspectors of the State Labour Service of Ukraine

Information materials

Presentations

• With care for yourself and everyone: Psychological methods of self-recovery
• With care for yourself and everyone: Psychological first aid
• With care for yourself and everyone: Policy and programme at the enterprise level
• With care for yourself and everyone: Good practices
• With care for yourself and everyone: Tips for labour inspectors

Publications

• ILO/WHO Joint Policy Brief “Mental health at work”