The Thriving in Health project collaborated with Dr Olivier Cotsaftis and RMIT School of Design to deliver the Safety Sensescaping project.

The key aim of this strategy was to use a human-centred design approach and co-design and iterative methodologies to explore how we might enhance the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare workers exposed to work-related psychosocial risks in the workplace. 

The intent of Safety Sensescaping was to:

• assess the role design can play in solving abstract and complex problems like workplace mental health and wellbeing
• identify opportunities for design and innovation through design research
• prototype design concepts with the view of generating impacts. 

Emerging insights:

• Safety Sensescaping design approaches and methodologies can address work-related psychosocial hazards like environmental conditions in healthcare settings
• the application of Safety Sensescaping design approaches and methodologies may also extend to the design of services, strategies, policies and products
• to protect and promote healthcare worker mental health and wellbeing, there is a need to embed workplace mental health and wellbeing in the design of work and workplaces