{"id":7664,"date":"2021-06-09T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecareers.emotedigital.com.au\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:48:38","slug":"building-better-mental-health-for-australian-mining-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/building-better-mental-health-for-australian-mining-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Better Mental Health for Australian Mining Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The number one value and commitment of the Australian minerals industry is the safety and health of its workforce, where everyone goes to work and returns home safely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mental health is central to health and safety and can have an adverse impact on mining workers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The newly launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V94_0a5Jxto&amp;t=1s\">MineWell<\/a> app is a great step forward in making help available to mining workers and their families who may be going through a tough time because of long hours, separation, isolation or financial stress.<\/p>\n<p>MineWell is a preventative mental health and wellbeing app developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/minerals.org.au\/careers\">Minerals Council of Australia<\/a> and Utility Creative to provide prevention, intervention and education in mental health and wellbeing for Australian mining workers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The app includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personalised scheduling for shift workers to promote better sleep and alertness whilst on shift<\/li>\n<li>Advice and exercises for improving sleep quality, staying active and positive and staying well during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>Tools to take control through breathing, managing emotions and releasing tension<\/li>\n<li>A social connection tool to schedule anniversaries, birthdays, catch-ups with family and friends and other important events<\/li>\n<li>A crisis response tool for direct calls to <a href=\"https:\/\/mates.org.au\/mining\/\">MATES in Mining<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">Lifeline<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/\">Beyond Blue<\/a> and other help services<\/li>\n<li>A Budget Well feature to set a target budget, savings goals and help track progress to reduce stress and anxiety related to financial management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All personal information provided by app users remains private, is only stored on their device and cannot be accessed, viewed or gathered by others.<\/p>\n<p>MineWell has been developed based on feedback from focus groups and user testing by Australian miners and is available free to all mineworkers and their families through the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/minewell\/id1527352901\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.sparecreative.minewell\">Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number one value and commitment of the Australian minerals industry is the safety and health of its workforce, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}