Spike in post-lockdown wellbeing courses

The past twelve months have brought to the forefront the importance of mental health awareness in the workplace. There has been a spike in businesses approaching Phoenix Health & Safety to train their employees and HR professionals in our new ‘working with wellbeing’ and ‘stress awareness’ courses, to ensure they can correctly support their employees.

There is a cost to mental health problems in the workplace and it has been proven that businesses that take a proactive approach to employee wellbeing outperform those that don’t.

Our wellbeing qualification and stress awareness course educate employers of their responsibility to employees' mental health, and how they can measure the effectiveness of wellbeing in the workplace. The practical initiatives taught in the courses will teach how to spot stress in others and offer many solutions on how to improve worker wellbeing, especially now that more of us are working from home on a more permanent basis.”

With such a high demand, Phoenix Health & Safety are now offering a new course, ‘working with wellbeing’ which is provided by NEBOSH and can support employers in improving staff turnover, increasing employee satisfaction and overall productivity. 

NEBOSH chief operating officer, Dee Ar, said, “Our new course will give managers the know-how, skills and practical interventions to support the overall wellbeing of their people, for the benefit of colleagues and businesses.

“The wellbeing responsibilities of employers has been a hot topic over the past year. People who are well are typically more resilient to change and adversity. That’s not to say people are expected to be infallible but that by having effective wellbeing support, employees can better cope with significant and unusual situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic we are currently experiencing.”