Safety for Support Workers: Part 1

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of understanding and reporting Occupational Violence and Aggression for frontline support workers in mental health.

Send us Fan Mail OVA is a matter for everyone to understand and report but in particular for frontline support workers who work with NDIS participants and provide mental health support in community programs. Awareness of, education about and the importance of reporting Occupational Violence and Aggression (OVA) has been a concerted focus for ermha365. Our work on OVA reduction was recognised in a big way in October 2025 at the Australian Workplace Health and Safety Awards with our OVA taskfor...

Topics covered

• Occupational Violence
• Aggression
• NDIS
• mental health
• support workers

Keywords

• safety
• community programs
• education
• awareness

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