Posts tagged ‘Workplace well-being’
Workplace well-being:Roundtable discussion
Friday, July 9th, 2010With the rise in mental health difficulties and stress problems in the workplace, HSENI brings together key professionals in occupational health to discuss how managers should respond. As well as its intrinsic benefit, improving staff well-being is good for customer service and will become increasingly important in the public sector as spending cuts add pressure to staff. Why is workplace mental health becoming increasingly important? Bryan In the traditional areas of health and safety, the logic of our involvement has evolv ed over the last eight to nine years from an emphasis on hard...[full story]
Workplace well-being:In practice
Friday, July 9th, 2010As part of its well-being report, agendaNi looks at workplace initiatives taken across the UK to protect employees’ mental health. Anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, self- harm and dementia are some of the mental health problems that can affect people at any time in their life, and which employers must increasingly be prepared to deal with. Stress is also a rising problem, and has the potential to develop into a more serious risk for employee and employer if it is ignored. The 2009 CIPD employee outlook survey, conducted by YouGov (which interviewed a sample of 2,000 people), showed...[full story]
