Review of BS 30480: Suicide and the Workplace: Implications for Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand

Abstract

The British Standards Institution (BSI) released a new 53-page guide in October 2025: Suicide and the workplace – Intervention, prevention and support for people affected by suicide (BS 30480:2025). It is explicitly designed as a guide, rather than a standard or specification, to provide advice and recommendations to workplaces in Britain. The guide is free to download and reflects a broader international trend toward incorporating suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention within organisational governance, policy, and systems (Hallet et al., 2024). Drawing on an organisational systems and applied psychology lens, this review provides an overview of BS 30480, analysis of the substantive content of the guide, and considers how the guide may support workplace approaches to suicide prevention and response in the organisational and cultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand.