 So what are reasonable adjustments to make when it comes to someone's mental health? Reasonable adjustments. Okay, so we're talking about a workplace setting and where a manager needs to Adjust to accommodate someone who might be going through something challenging The difficulty is in the word reasonable, which is actually the term that's used in the workplace health and safety legal Documents the difficulty is that reasonable is decided after the fact usually in a court of law by a judge To what is interpreted as reasonable which makes it difficult for us as managers to know how to make decisions when we Would prefer not to get to the point of being in a court in front of a judge So generally what it means is something that most people would believe to be reasonable as an adjustment And I know that's not particularly helpful when you're trying to decide in the moment When it's actually happening. So another way that I like to think about it is Is this thing that the person's requesting is it possible that it can be done in the business in the workplace? Without a negative impact on the business itself or the other team members around So for example in some roles It might be reasonable to adjust someone's working hours so that they start and finish a little bit later each day But in other roles like in nursing for example in a hospital Environment that might not be possible because you need certain people on it shifts in certain times In some roles it might be possible to swap around tasks between members of the team But in other situations that wouldn't be doable So there's no sort of hard and fast. This is reasonable. This isn't it's very much about using your judgment as a manager We do talk about this in our workplace mental health masterclass for leaders and we give a list of sort of possible adjustments that could be Available to people but the important thing is that as managers, we shouldn't assume what someone needs We need to be able to have conversations with our team members Where they come forward and if they are requesting some kind of change or flexibility We take their lead in that and and ask is it possible? Can we do this? Would a reasonable person think that this is doable? It doesn't mean you have to accommodate any request that someone puts forward either So I think it might be better if for my mental health and well-being if my manager sent me to work from the Bahamas for a week That would be a an adjustment that I'd request But most places would say that it's probably not reasonable within within our environment in short It's a judgment call speak to your superior if you're not sure speak to HR get legal advice and go from there Hi, I'm Amy Golding director of psychology for the Workplace Mental Health Institute We hope you liked the video if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up We have more and more videos being released each week So when you subscribe you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just been published So make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself your colleagues and your loved ones You