newsAt BALMORAN Show this year, Rural Support launched its new booklet entitled ‘Coping with the Pressures of Farming’, aimed at offering the farming community help and assistance in relation to their health and well-being and every day pressures of running a farm.
newsBRITISH SAFETY Council launches wellbeing videos with exercises and advice to help workers beat stress and maintain good mental health.
newsA NEW report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) looking at the issues facing the teacher workforce in England shows that job-related stress is higher among teachers than other professionals.
newsOVER THREE quarters of employees believe people at their place of work would be uncomfortable discussing mental health – citing anxiety of how they might be perceived by co-workers (82%), concerns over harm to career prospects (78%), embarrassment (76%), and fears they would not be trusted with more responsibility (69%) as the key barriers.
newsTHE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has outlined its belief that employers to have a legal duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
newsHEALTHTECH STARTUP Mynurva has commissioned an independent, nationally-representative survey among more than 2,000 UK adults to uncover the number of full-time workers who suffer from mental health problems; how many of them seek help for their issues; and the main barriers that hold them back from doing so.
newsTHE TUC union has responded to the latest HSE figures, which show 15.4 million working days were lost to work-related stress, anxiety and depression, by warning the issue is now an epidemic.
newsRESPONDING TO the Budget announcement, the British Safety Council has welcomed the government’s commitment of £2bn annually to support NHS mental health services by 2023-24.
productSTRESS, DEPRESSION and anxiety accounted for 40 percent of all work-related ill health cases and 49 percent of all working days lost due to ill health in 2016/17.
newsSTRESS IS the top concern in UK workplaces, according to a new TUC survey of trade union health and safety representatives published.
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