InstituteOrganization for Industrial and Occupational m ental health (OM HO)

I t is essential for us to promote mental health of labors. I t helps us to keepthem health and safety of workplaces and promote productivity. And now,
preventing mental illness like depression is the important matter forcompanies to manage risks. However, if you want to improve mental health,
you need expertise.
We, Organization for I ndustrial and Occupational mental health (OMHO),
help your activity to use the expertise and promote laborsʼ QOL andproductivity.

Aim ing at elim inating people for poor m ental health!

STEP 1 Correct understanding of m ental health for m anagers
・Meaning and purpose of mental health activity
・Contents of health arrangement obligation for manager
・Evidence based approach for alleviating stress and mental illness
・How to do for poor mental health people
・Making rules for risk management

P OI NTI t is responsible for managers to promote laborsʼ health and prevent illness.
There are much factors of stress in workplace. Managers need to analyze thestress factors and take concrete measures to fulfill health obligation.

・balance of demand, discretion and support for working
・balance of effort and remuneration

STEP 2 M aking w orkplace to elim inate poor m ental health people
・Checking working environment and feedback to workplace
・Managers education
・behavioral and psychometric approach for organization

P OI NTManager is important for laborsʼ mental health care. I t is essential for
managers to get the skills of problem solving communication and fairmanagement behaviors. I f you get them, your subordinatesʼ stresses are
alleviated absolutely.

STEP 3 Enhancing laborsʼ resilience.
・Mental health education for self-care.
・Workshop of stress management with cognitive behavior therapy andinterpersonal therapy
・Education of sleeping

P OI NTWe cannot avoid stress, however, can get the stress managing skills. Whatshould we do when we feel stress? Evidence based CBT and I P T are mostused in the world to manage the stress. Stress is enhanced by insomnia.
P reventing insomnia and getting the skill of good sleeping is the best way toprevent laborsʼ mental health diseases.

STEP 4

M ental consultation

・Screening poor mental health people
・P ost-responding for stress checking
・Consultation and intervention for poor mental health people
・Helping managers in workplace with poor mental health people

P OI NTI f it occurred laborʼs mental disease, we can prevent it with earlyintervention. Mental problems are happened to every people. However, there
are many cases that we can look at the state, prescribe the drugs or diagnose
the doctor. I t is important for us to detect mental disease as soon as possibleand consultation to expertise.

STEP 5 Reinstatem ent support・Second opinion of diagnoses and remedies.
・I nformation exchanging to your main doctor
・Appropriate assessments to problems
・advises for earlier reinstatement and relapse prevention

P OI NT
Now, overdiagnosing of depression and overdosing are problems for us. Of
course, you need home recuperation if you are diagnosed schizophrenia or
bipolar disorder, however, home recuperation is not the only way to improvemental disease. Causes of poor mental health are many reasons and usuallyoverlap plural factors. When the labor takes the day off for a long time, you
had better to take measures for problem solving support and avoiding drugs.

Written by Katsutoshi, TANAKA.

Katsutoshi, TANAKA
P rofessor of Kitazato University (psychiatry)
He is the expert of organization for industrial and occupational mental
health and involve many companies to prevent depression and promote
productivity.
He is director of Japanese Society for Occupational mental health, Japanese
Association of Stress Science, and so on.

M D. Tanaka's com m ent from the follow ing
I n overseas, some people become mental disease because① Poor business support (from local and home country and company)② Poor communication of local labors and subordinates

③ Mental instability of their wife and children (if there)
and so on. They are main factors.
When the labor become mental disease, it is almost recognized theoccupational injury, so the main counter-measure is to come back the homecountry.
Prevention, anyway, is making the support systems to measure as soon as
possible when something wrong (not only business time but also privatetime) occurred to a labor.

Edited by Yasuhiko, MATSUOKA.
I am the director of Organization for I ndustrial and Occupational mentalhealth (OMHO). I want to make better working environment and hope tocommunicate easily each other. So I started OMHO.

My support program in HANOI・I mplementation of mental health workshop
・I mplementation of stress checking
・Assessment of high stress people
・communication to Japanese labors
・Collaboration to health management office・Second opinion from MD. Tanaka