Mental health
Work can have a significant impact on people’s mental health. Employers can help to foster a mentally healthy workplace, for example by taking action to prevent and manage stress and training line managers on mental wellbeing.
Around 300,000 leave work because of mental health, minister claims
An estimated 300,000 people with mental health conditions fall out of work every year, the minister for disabled people has...
CIPD’s Peter Cheese: HR’s role in improving mental health
On World Mental Health Day, HR teams have been reminded of the scale of the mental ill health “epidemic” and...
Jobseekers advised to avoid words such as ‘depression’
Jobcentre Plus employees have been advised to tell people looking for work to hide mental health issues with terms such...
Mandatory reporting would improve staff mental health, a third of firms say
Almost a third (30%) of employers think mandatory reporting of workplace mental health statistics would help make organisations more accountable...
More than a fifth of engineers take time off because of mental health
Almost one in five engineers has lost a colleague to suicide, while more than a fifth have had to take...
Organisation-wide interventions needed to tackle ‘endemic’ NHS burnout
Only organisation-wide interventions will help protect the wellbeing of doctors and avoid “endemic” burnout“ within the NHS, according to a...
HSE to publish work-related stress investigations criteria
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is set to publish the criteria required for it to begin an investigation into...
Workplace culture contributing to ‘psychological harm’
Poor practices and cultures are contributing to the “psychological harm” of employees, with 39% of UK workers suffering symptoms of...
Progress on mental health ‘core standards’ lagging behind
Only a fifth of employers have met the first of the “core standards” recommended by a government-commissioned report into improving...
Violence and abuse against shop workers reaches ‘epidemic’ proportions
A Co-op funded report has called for government action to prevent crime against retail workers, claiming it has reached ‘epidemic’...
Record number of staff receiving mental health first aid training
Organisations are training record numbers of employees in mental health first aid in order to combat rising reports of stress,...
Men fear abilities will be questioned if mental health is raised, survey finds
Four in 10 men who struggle with their mental health feel unable to talk to their manager about it because...
Third of staff under ‘extreme’ pressure while colleagues are on holiday
More than a third (34%) of staff claim they feel under “extreme” pressure or have panic attacks because of the...
Surge in mental health issues at Hinkley Point C ‘highly disturbing’
There has been a surge in the number of workers on the Hinkley Point C construction project who are grappling...
Home truths – making working from home work
Homeworking is often thought as an easy solution to workplace stress, long hours and exhausting commutes. In fact, apart from...
