Doing more on Mental Health

There are many myths on mental health, stress, anxiety etc. This article hasn’t been written to provide you with even more statistics or more misleading information.

This article has been written to help people and businesses provide a solution in better managing Mental Health.

If you are reading this article, you will probably already know the importance of preventing mental health problems in your organisation?

So What is mental health?

The mind.org.uk states:

In many ways, mental health is just like physical health: everybody has it and we need to take care of it.
Good mental health means being generally able to think, feel and react in the ways that you need and want to live your life.

They also go on to state:

• 0.5 million workers suffering from work-related stress, anxiety and depression (new and long-standing) in 2016/17
• the annual cost of work-related injury and new cases of ill health in 2016/17 was £14.9 billion.
• Each £1 invested in health and wellbeing is said to generate a return of between £1.50 and £9.

Are Current ways a full solution?

It has been proven employees do not feel comfortable raising mental health issues, be it at work or home.
When an employee is being asked direct questions even though these are designed to help, this can still be deemed as interrogation and may present the scenario they are guilty.

We truly believe a better approach is needed: Better than just posters around the office, bulk emails sent raising awareness and weekly stress stand down days.

We also need to actively manage the obvious cost impact businesses will face in raising awareness, creating campaigns, organising stand down days and one-to-one sessions.

How Safety PAL does it?

We are not mental health professionals, you are, we just understand your need and passion to create awareness, to improve and to reduce the impact mental health has on the person and the people around them.

We also understand your requirement to get measurable data for the management on every worker to prove you and your teams input is helping.

Safety PAL helps you be more caring, effective and efficient by:

• Provide compelling, cloud based video’s to raise awareness. For use by workers at work and home.
• Tool’s that improve communication with colleagues, management and family.
• Reducing, or even negating the effects of mental health.
• Measurable data accessible without interrogation.
• An efficient way for businesses to globally manage this relatively new phenomenon.

The following video shows how just one of our unique solution’s, creating a passive experience for workers and a strong tool for you organisations Mental Health Strategy.

The business case for using Safety PAL

A happy workforce is a productive one, it’s this primary reason why Safety PAL has created a wellbeing management system that allows your business to:

• Create and communicate a mental health at work plan.
• Create mentally thriving workers.
• Give workers Mental Health tools available at work and home 24/7.
• Allow management to routinely monitor controlling risks in-line with regulations

What next?

It couldn’t be simpler, Safety PAL could be supporting you in your business in just a few days.

Helpful links:

https://www.shponline.co.uk/half-british-workers-take-sick-days-due-stress/

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg430.pdf

http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/what-to-do.htm