EAOHP Policy Event
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting evidence-based policy making
For policy makers, social partners, researchers and other key stakeholders to engage in discussion on the current policy landscape.
This event will serve as a cornerstone for future policy development, empowering a network of partners to promote healthy psychosocial work environments and good mental health at work.
Join us to share your insights and learn from international experiences.
World Mental Health Day – 9th and 10th October 2025
International Labour Organization, Geneva
This event aims at sharing knowledge, experiences and good practices in regulation and policy initiatives. Participants will:
- Present specific legislation and policies related to psychosocial risk management and mental health at work across countries and discuss learnings from their implementation.
- Consider the key indicators used to evaluate these policies and gaps that need to be addressed going forward.
- Evaluate how various initiatives have worked out in practice and priorities to be addressed through engaging key stakeholders.
- Discuss how various policies can be aligned to promote a preventative approach on PSR and mental health at work, including a specific focus on good practices that have been implemented in line with the UN Strategy for Mental Health at Work in various UN agencies.
Programme
Day 1: 9th October 2025
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting Evidence-based Policy Making and Practice in the UN
13:00 – Registration
13:00 – 13:30 Opening Ceremony
Welcome (Stavroula Leka, President EAOHP)
Opening address
13:30 – 14:30 Roundtable on UN 2.0 Vision: Cultivating an organizational culture that thrives on agility, creativity, learning, and adaptability – tenets of the psychosocial risk management process
Opening address (United Nations)
Key UN Stakeholders
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30 Psychosocial Risk Management at the UN – Translating the UN 2.0 vision into action
UNHCR
UNICEF
ILO
16:30 – 17:30 Concluding remarks and way forward
Day 2: 10th October 2025
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting Evidence-based Policy Making
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening Talks
- Welcome (ILO)
- Opening address: Conceptualisation of work-related psychosocial risks: Moving forward in policy and practice (Stavroula Leka, President, EAOHP)
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote address
- Working together to advance the management of psychosocial risks at work and promote workers’ health and wellbeing (Yolanda Diaz, Second Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Spain)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:30 Lessons from developing and implementing policies on psychosocial risk management and mental health at work across countries
- Presentations from national policy stakeholders
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Policy stakeholder roundtable – Aligning policy approaches and building partnerships
- Estelle Ceulemans, MEP and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
- Nayla Glaise, EuroCadres President
- International Commission on Occupational Health
- ISO – International Organisation for Standardisation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 The Future of Policy Making on Work-Related Psychosocial Risks
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
- International Commission on Occupational Health
- European Trade Union Institute
Topics to be covered:
- Future of Work & Psychosocial Risks
- Digitalisation & Psychosocial Risks
- Climate change & Psychosocial Risks
- Demographic changes and vulnerable groups
16:30 – 17:00 Concluding remarks and close
- Way forward: Coordination through a global network
Programme
Day 1: 9th October 2025
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting Evidence-based Policy Making and Practice in the UN
12:30 – 13:00 Registration
13:00 – 13:30 Opening Ceremony
- Welcome (Stavroula Leka, President EAOHP)
- Opening address
13:30 – 14:30 Roundtable on UN 2.0 Vision: Cultivating an organizational culture that thrives on agility, creativity, learning, and adaptability – tenets of the psychosocial risk management process
- Opening address (UN)
- Key UN Stakeholders
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30 Psychosocial Risk Management at the UN – Translating the UN 2.0 vision into action
- UNHCR
- UNICEF
- ILO
16:30 – 17:30 Concluding remarks and way forward
Day 2: 10th October 2025
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting Evidence-based Policy Making
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening Talks
- Welcome (ILO)
- Opening address: Conceptualisation of work-related psychosocial risks: Moving forward in policy and practice (Stavroula Leka, President, EAOHP)
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote address
- Working together to advance the management of psychosocial risks at work and promote workers’ health and wellbeing (Yolanda Diaz, Second Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Spain)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:30 Lessons from developing and implementing policies on psychosocial risk management and mental health at work across countries
- Presentations from national policy stakeholders
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Policy stakeholder roundtable – Aligning policy approaches and building partnerships
- Estelle Ceulemans, MEP and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
- Nayla Glaise, EuroCadres President
- International Commission on Occupational Health
- ISO – International Organisation for Standardisation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 The Future of Policy Making on Work-Related Psychosocial Risks
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
- International Commission on Occupational Health
- European Trade Union Institute
- Topics to be covered:
- Future of Work & Psychosocial Risks
- Digitalisation & Psychosocial Risks
- Climate change & Psychosocial Risks
- Demographic changes and vulnerable groups
16:30 – 17:00 Concluding remarks and close
- Way forward: Coordination through a global network
Programme
Day 1: 9th October 2025
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting Evidence-based Policy Making and Practice in the UN
13:30 – 14:30
Roundtable on UN 2.0 Vision: Cultivating an organizational culture that thrives on agility, creativity, learning, and adaptability – tenets of the psychosocial risk management process
- Opening address (UN)
- Key UN Stakeholders
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30
Psychosocial Risk Management at the UN – Translating the UN 2.0 vision into action
- UNHCR
- UNICEF
- ILO
16:30 – 17:30
Concluding remarks and way forward
Day 2: 10th October 2025
Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health at Work in the Future of Work: Promoting Evidence-based Policy Making
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:30
Opening Talks
- Welcome (ILO)
- Opening address: Conceptualisation of work-related psychosocial risks: Moving forward in policy and practice (Stavroula Leka, President, EAOHP)
09:30 – 10:15
Keynote address
- Working together to advance the management of psychosocial risks at work and promote workers’ health and wellbeing (Yolanda Diaz, Second Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Spain)
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:30
Lessons from developing and implementing policies on psychosocial risk management and mental health at work across countries
- Presentations from national policy stakeholders
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Policy stakeholder roundtable – Aligning policy approaches and building partnerships
- Estelle Ceulemans, MEP and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
- Nayla Glaise, EuroCadres President
- International Commission on Occupational Health
- ISO – International Organisation for Standardisation
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30
The Future of Policy Making on Work-Related Psychosocial Risks
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
- International Commission on Occupational Health
- European Trade Union Institute
Topics to be covered:
- Future of Work & Psychosocial Risks
- Digitalisation & Psychosocial Risks
- Climate change & Psychosocial Risks
- Demographic changes and vulnerable groups
16:30 – 17:00
Concluding remarks and close
- Way forward: Coordination through a global network
9th and 10th October 2025
International Labour Organization
4 route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland