Mental Health Week 2022

by | Nov 13, 2025

Webinar Host: Workplace Health and Safety Queensland

In this Livestream event presented on behalf of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland during Mental Health Week 2022, Catherine shares insights on how neurodivergent workers may experience risk at work differently from their neurotypical co-workers – and what you can do to ensure you are making workplaces safer, healthier, and more inclusive for neurodivergent workers.

 

Building Neurodivergent Friendly Work with FocusBear

Building Neurodivergent Friendly Work with FocusBear

Workplaces are often designed with an unspoken assumption: that everyone can manage time, attention, memory and task initiation in the same way. For many neurodivergent workers—particularly those with ADHD—this creates a hidden layer of risk.

In this webinar, you will learn how executive functioning demands built into everyday work design can increase cognitive load, contribute to burnout, and be misinterpreted as poor performance or non-compliance. More importantly, you will gain practical, system-based strategies to redesign work so that it supports how people actually think and function.

Featuring Focus Bear, this session demonstrates how simple tools and structured workflows can scaffold executive functioning, improve consistency, and reduce psychosocial risk, without placing the burden on the individual.

Attention Deficit Disorder Association Webinar

Attention Deficit Disorder Association Webinar

In this webinar, we will explore some of the barriers to disclosure, the problems that non-disclosure can cause for both the worker and the employer, and introduce the Neurodiverse Safe Work Initiative, which has been established to make workplaces safe, healthy and inclusive for neurodiverse workers.