Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
What is an EAP provider?
Australian work, health and safety legislation requires employers to ensure workplaces are safe and healthy for all workers. Employers also have an ethical responsibility to protect and promote the health, safety and welfare of their employees.
An effective EAP is the foundation to a successful workplace health and productivity strategy. It is a win for employers and their employees.
EAPs assist organisations and managers to meet their obligations under the Work Health & Safety Act 2011, particularly:
- protecting workers against harm to health (including mental health), safety and welfare through the elimination or minimisation of risks arising from work
- providing fair and effective workplace representation, consultation, cooperation and issue resolution in relation to work health and safety
- taking a constructive role in promoting improvements in work health and safety practices and achieving a healthier and safer working environment
- promoting the provision of advice, information, education and training in relation to work health and safety
- providing a framework for continuous improvement and progressively higher standards of work health and safety.
Benefits to Employers
Providing a healthy and safe workplace benefits all workers. It also makes good business sense.
- A health care value component which includes worker’s compensation and salary continuance insurance savings
- A human capital value component representing savings in reducing absenteeism, presentism (reduced productivity while at work) and turnover and improving engagement and morale
- An organisational value component comprising cost savings regarding issues such as safety risks, employee grievances and legal claims and the positive benefits of demonstrating employee concern and support
- An EAP will return far more than it costs.
EAP Services
The Reset Wellness provide all EAP services including:
Professional short term counselling with referral and case management
Management assistance services
Organisational and team interventions and psychoeducation
Reporting to assess program penetration and assist with organisational strategy