Suicide Awareness

Duration: 3 or 4 hour options

Delivery Method: Virtual or face to face

Course Capacity: 16

Workplace Suicide Awareness Training: Responding to Emotional Distress and Crisis

Workplace Suicide Awareness & Crisis Support Training

This training course is designed for professionals across all sectors who may encounter emotional distress or mental health crises in the workplace. Whether you’re in HR, management, wellbeing, or a frontline role, this course equips you with the skills to support colleagues or service users in a compassionate and confident manner.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for:

Managers, HR professionals, and wellbeing leads
Frontline staff, peer supporters, and mental health champions
Anyone who wants to better support vulnerable clients or colleagues
Teams working to promote psychological safety and raise suicide awareness

No prior experience in suicide prevention or mental health is necessary.
The course offers clear, practical guidance for beginners and development opportunities for those already in supportive roles.

Course Overview

Creating a safe, compassionate workplace means recognizing and addressing emotional crises—even when signs aren’t obvious. This course provides the knowledge and tools to identify warning signals, hold supportive conversations, and respond appropriately.

You’ll learn how to:

Recognise signs of emotional distress and suicide risk
Address common myths and misconceptions
Support others while maintaining personal boundaries
Build emotional resilience to protect your own wellbeing

Whether you’re supporting colleagues or service users, this training helps you respond with empathy, awareness, and confidence.

Learning Outcomes

By completing this mental health crisis training, participants will:

Understand the impact of suicide in professional settings and raise suicide awareness
Recognise signs of emotional distress, vulnerability, or suicidal ideation
Build practical strategies to support and manage distressed clients or team members
Engage in compassionate, sensitive conversations around suicide and wellbeing
Promote workplace environments rooted in psychological safety, empathy, and openness
Reinforce self-care practices and emotional boundaries to protect personal wellbeing

Course aims

To increase suicide awareness and practical crisis-response skills within the workplace, empowering professionals to support vulnerable service users and colleagues with empathy and effectiveness. This course contributes to creating mentally healthy, supportive, and responsive organisations equipped to manage emotional crises with care.