newsMENTAK HEALTH First Aid (MHFA) England has launched best-practice guidance for employers on how to implement Mental Health First Aid in the workplace. This follows the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) recent recommendation to include ‘mental health trained first aiders’ as part of employers’ first aid needs assessments.
newsRESEARCH BY the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) suggests one in four people in the UK will have mental ill-health at some point and that prolonged work-related stress can lead to both physical and psychological damage, including anxiety and depression.
newsHERMES’ SELF-employed couriers now have the option to take holiday pay and have guaranteed earnings following a groundbreaking deal between the leading consumer delivery company and GMB Union.
newsNEW RESEARCH from People HR has found that Brits are reluctant to call in sick, many because they’re afraid of their boss and office backlash.
newsWITH THE cost of cancer to business estimated at £5.3billion* Specialist Cancer Care provider Harley Street Concierge is launching a new guide for employers to mark World Cancer Day (4th February 2019). On average a cancer diagnosis in the family causes 27 days of direct absenteeism.
newsAT LEAST 500 operatives nationwide are receiving full suicide awareness and prevention training as a result of a recently awarded £2 million contract won by a Leeds based multi-service provider.
newsIOSH’S NO Time to Lose campaign is “going from strength to strength” as it registers its 300th supporting organisation.
newsWITH SNOW in many parts of the UK and more snow and ice forecast this week, the TUC has called on employers not to force their staff to make dangerous journeys to work.
newsMATES IN Mind believes business leaders are in a good position to address mental health in the workplace, but encourages them to consider that delivering meaningful change to their workforces should be effectively aligned to their business priorities.
newsAUDIT SCOTLAND is delighted to announce a new charity partnership with SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health).
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