A healthy and engaged workforce is a key factor in improving organisational productivity and performance. With mental health costing employers up to £56bn1 each year in absenteeism, staff turnover and lost productivity, and stress, depression and anxiety accounting for 51% of all work related ill health cases2, it makes good business sense to invest in supporting the wellbeing of your workforce.
Employers also have a legal duty of care to ensure the health and safety of their employees whilst at work, which includes psychological health and safety. Sustaining employee wellbeing in the long term requires active involvement at organisational level using a combined approach of preventative and management strategies.
Our health and wellbeing specialists offer a range of services to support your organisation in creating a mentally healthy workplace and managing psychosocial risks to reduce exposure to workplace stress. Taking action will demonstrate to insurers you are pro-actively addressing employee stress and mental health in the workplace which may lead to reduced insurance premiums.
Services include
This review will carry out an analysis of your organisations current arrangements, responsibilities, policies and procedures for managing workplace stress and mental health. The process will involve discussions with key individuals in your business including HR, health and safety and learning and development. This review will highlight the strengths and weaknesses in your present arrangements and recommend solutions.
We deliver a variety of mental health first aid courses to suit your organisation’s requirements including full first aid, awareness and refresher courses. All courses are delivered either face to face or online in a safe and supported environment. Our instructors are experienced in delivering training within corporate environments, have experience in mental health and the ability to engage and motivate attendees.
Our health and wellbeing specialists can provide guidance on your strategy for managing workplace stress as well as support and assistance with your internal workplace stress assessment to help you achieve regulatory compliance. This may include help with understanding your organisations stress hotspots, facilitating focus groups to obtain employee feedback and supporting you in devising your action plans.
Managing workplace stress is an integral part of the role of a line manager so education of what causes stress in the workplace plays a key role in mitigating the risk of exposure. Our training solutions can be specifically designed to meet your organaisation’s requirements and can be delivered either face-to-face or virtually. Our courses have an emphasis on the prevention of workplace stress as well as management should issues arise, and will also help attendees to understand stress from a personal perspective.
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1 Poor mental health costs UK employers up to £56 billion a year
2 Health and safety at work
