The physical hazards are visible. The psychological toll is hidden.
ASHEPA is pleased to announce an important professional webinar titled “The Hidden Toll: Eco-Anxiety, Climate Trauma, and Psychosocial Safety in the Workplace.” This timely webinar will bring attention to one of the most overlooked effects of climate change: its impact on worker mental health, emotional wellbeing, and psychosocial safety.
As climate-related events become more frequent and more severe, workplaces are beginning to experience not only physical risks but also psychological and social pressures. Extreme heat, floods, droughts, displacement, uncertainty, environmental loss, and fear about the future can affect how workers feel, think, perform, and cope. These hidden effects may appear as anxiety, emotional fatigue, reduced concentration, stress, burnout, hopelessness, or fear about personal and community safety.
This one-hour webinar will shift the conversation from physical climate hazards to psychological resilience. It is designed especially for HSE professionals, HR professionals, ESG officers, sustainability leaders, occupational health practitioners, managers, supervisors, educators, and organisations that want to better understand and manage the human side of climate change.
Why This Webinar Matters
For many years, climate change discussions have focused mainly on environmental damage, infrastructure risk, emergency response, and physical safety. While these remain important, the mental health impact of climate change is becoming a growing workplace concern.
Workers may be affected directly through climate-related disasters or indirectly through fear, uncertainty, job insecurity, community disruption, and concern for future generations. For HSE and HR leaders, this means that climate resilience must now include psychosocial safety, mental health awareness, and structured workplace support.
This ASHEPA webinar will help participants understand how climate change can create psychosocial risks and how organisations can respond using a practical risk-management approach.
What Participants Will Learn
Participants will gain practical insight into:
How climate change can affect worker mental health and workplace wellbeing.
How eco-anxiety and climate trauma may show up in workers, teams, and communities.
How to identify hidden signs of climate distress before they become serious workplace concerns.
How HSE and HR professionals can apply risk management principles to psychosocial safety.
How organisations can build psychological resilience as part of climate adaptation and workplace safety planning.
Event Details
Topic: The Hidden Toll: Eco-Anxiety, Climate Trauma, and Psychosocial Safety in the Workplace
Date: 1 August 2026
Time: 15:00 GMT+1
Duration: 1 Hour
Speaker: Dr. Ernest Mando
Format: Online Webinar
Certificate: Participants will be issued a Certificate of Participation after attending.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ernest Mando is an ESG specialist with special interests in occupational safety and health, governance, and climate change. He has over 10 years of experience across the private sector, public sector, and consulting, with professional exposure in mining, agriculture, distribution, and manufacturing.
He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from UNISA, an MSc in Safety, Health and Environmental Management from Midlands State University, Zimbabwe, and several professional certifications in OSH, ESG, and climate change.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is highly recommended for HSE professionals, HR managers, ESG and sustainability professionals, occupational health practitioners, environmental professionals, safety leaders, supervisors, educators, students, and organisations working to strengthen workplace resilience.
It is also relevant for anyone interested in the connection between climate change, mental health, and workplace safety.
Register Now
Climate change is not only an environmental challenge. It is also a workplace wellbeing issue. The visible hazards may be easier to identify, but the hidden psychological toll requires awareness, leadership, and action.
Join ASHEPA for this important webinar and learn how to protect workers not only from physical risks, but also from the hidden psychosocial impacts of a changing climate.
Register here:
https://events.ashepa.org
Early registration is encouraged. Secure your seat now and be part of this important conversation on mental health, climate change, resilience, and workplace safety.
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#mentalhealth #Climatechange #Resilience #Workplace #ASHEPA #HSE #PsychosocialSafety #EcoAnxiety #ClimateTrauma
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