Think Menopause
Menopause is a foreseeable occupational health risk. It interacts with the same workplace exposures and frameworks practitioners already manage- thermal environment, fatigue, manual handling, DSE, COSHH, noise, the HSE Management Standards, and the hierarchy of controls. What has been missing is the professional knowledge to apply those frameworks to this hazard for this workforce, through the right lens.
Think Menopause is built for the multidisciplinary professional community who, between them, deliver workplace health and safety governance: health and safety practitioners, occupational health physicians, nurses and advisers, occupational hygienists, ergonomists, allied health professionals, and trade union safety representatives.
A Multi-disciplinary and lived experiences approach
All of our training and education is science-informed, drawing on occupational hygiene, ergonomics, physiology, and toxicology. Evidence-based, anchored in BS 30416, BS 30417, ISO 45001, ISO 45003, and established HSE guidance. Built on living data, treating women's experience at work as evidence that informs risk assessment, not an anecdote that sits beside it. And human-generated and co-produced - because AI-assisted workplace risk assessment will silently encode bias against women's health, bodies, and gendered experiences if it is not held to account by expert human oversight. This is a real and growing inequality risk in workplace risk assessment.
Menopause is not one experience
Natural, surgical, treatment-induced, and premature ovarian insufficiency. Each presents differently in the workforce and creates distinct patterns of hazard exposure and control failure. Symptoms can begin during perimenopause, sometimes years before periods cease, and affect thermal regulation, cognitive load, sleep, musculoskeletal health, mental health, and cardiovascular risk. The workplace consequence is foreseeable. The professional response, when grounded in risk management rather than wellbeing, is straightforward: if you have been directed to the hazard.
Not "fix the person"
Think Menopause rejects the framing of menopause as a problem to be fixed in the individual. The lens is occupational health risk management. The workplace presents a foreseeable hazard, and the duty is to assess and manage it under the legal and standards framework already in place — not to ask the individual to manage around it.
Currently running
Our 3.5-hour course — Menopause Workplace Health Governance for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals — runs as a live online cohort, with two dates available
Training for Healthcare & Occupational Health & Safety Professionals
Depending on your role and workplace health responsibilities, our evidence-based professional training is delivered online and tailored to support you.
Understand Menopause Profiles
Natural, surgical, treatment-induced menopause, and premature ovarian insufficiency (POI).
Explore Workplace Influences
How shift work, PPE, workload, and workplace culture can affect menopause experiences.
Link to Organisational Outcomes
Understand the impact of menopause on productivity, staff retention, absenteeism, and gender pay gap disparities.
Apply Intersectional Thinking
Address how age, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, and socioeconomic status influence experiences and needs.
Conduct Risk Assessments
Assess psychosocial risks, thermal comfort, fatigue-related safety hazards, and job design considerations.
Discuss Treatment & Lifestyle Options
Offer evidence-based guidance on accessible medical and non-medical interventions.
Workplace Adjustments & Signposting
Identify reasonable adjustments and confidently signpost employees to specialist services, EAPs, and community resources.
Maintain Professional Standards
Apply current clinical evidence, follow professional codes of conduct, and protect confidentiality