Mental Health Awareness Week – How Dave The Safety PAL Bull Stays Chilled

Mental Health Awareness Week was established in 1990 to educate and increase awareness about mental illness.

But how is this controlled and managed in your workplace?

In the workplace, mental health is about how we think, feel and behave. Anxiety and depression are the most common mental problems. They are often a reaction to a challenging life event but can also be caused by work-related issues.

The team at Safety PAL understands how important mental health awareness is. However, beyond all the adverts and campaigns you will see this week, we also understand how businesses struggle to disseminate knowledge, information and controls to meet their Company’s legal responsibility.

How ‘Dave the Safety PAL Bull’ helps.

Even while experiencing the most stressful workplace, Dave The Safety PAL Bull remains chilled, but how?

Here at Safety PAL, we have been doing our utmost to increase our award-winning suite of tools to better support, monitor, and manage your workers’ mental health and wellbeing.

This article does not highlight the wide range of mental health problems nor detail the hidden issues that develop from hidden feelings associated with mental health stigma.

Instead, Safety PAL wants to concentrate on crucial deliverables, ways to help you and your team monitor, control and support all your workers from the most basic principles of mental health and wellbeing up to the more severe stages of the mental health scale.

Better-informed choices and support.

Workers mental health doesn’t always remain the same; different circumstances and environments create various problems. Hence, it’s imperative to provide your managers with tools to monitor the worker as the individual’s they are.

Safety PAL (PLAN ACT LEARN), along with Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, aims to bring about positive change to highlight how businesses need to better communicate with workers, providing essential information and education to better control anxieties and even supporting appropriate treatment.

To help businesses bring about positive change, we don’t need to provide you with more information; we need to help you deliver vital information and monitor workers health and wellbeing irrespective of the time of day or their location.

Are mental health awareness sessions a perfect fit?

Is putting 10-20 people into a room and openly discussing mental health the best fit for companies?

Are these meetings a robust solution in reducing the risk, or are they more biased about promoting a Company’s interaction with workplace mental health, i.e. ‘Mental Health Awareness Days’?

And lastly, do these sessions fulfil the employer’s legal requirements?

All businesses need an effective and efficient solution that doesn’t allow a vulnerable worker to remain hidden, doesn’t allow workers to miss out on vital and engaging support and a new way (The Safety PAL way) that doesn’t incur operational time pressures.

Many studies have linked nature to an increased sense of calm and reduced depression, anxiety and stress-related symptoms. Natures healing powers have never been more important as through the last 18 months of C-19.

Read more on how ‘Dave The Safety PAL Bull’ uses the Safety PAL way to help connect and inspire workplaces.

The Safety PAL Way.

Safety PALs solution allows you to communicate, interact and monitor every worker no matter the time of the day or their location.

Watch this short video presented by our newest mental health member Rhea. The video highlights just a few of the latest tools created to support workers mental health and wellbeing.

While watching our short video, think about how having these tools will help you connect with your workers individually, how you will have the ability to monitor individual workers and how these analytics will help you meet your legal obligations.

And finally, how you and your team will support the most vulnerable workers creating a more robust business and productive workforce.

Safety PAL not only provides your workers direct and instant information, but you also have access to real-time analytics, helping you differentiate the most vulnerable workers. All COVID Secure.

SMART effective and efficient tools help your team ensure your employee’s wellbeing is prioritised, optimising employees’ performance and proving you are meeting the relevant legal standards.

Client Testimonial

“Mental health can affect any of us at any time. Safety Pal has a tool to monitor mental health and wellbeing of all staff members, which is a legal obligation“

Joanne Pearce, Managing Director Pinball Metals Limited.

Book a product tour to see first hand how Safety PAL supports your mental health and wellbeing.

Resource links and other information

• Mental Health Foundation Fundamental Facts About Mental Health 2016: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/sites/default/files/fundamental-facts-about-mental-health-2016.pdf
• Mental Health Foundation ‘Mental health awareness week’: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week
• Mental Health UK: https://mentalhealth-uk.org/get-involved/mental-health-awareness-days/mental-health-awareness-week/
• Health and Safety Executive ‘ Mental health conditions, work and the workplace’: https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/mental-health.htm