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Mental health and wellbeing

A modern organisation that is concerned about the working environment of its employees must consider their health and wellbeing. Work-related illness and disease make up a substantial proportion of days lost at work. There is a growing acceptance of the importance of supporting good mental health at work.

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The theme of this year's World Mental Health Day was mental health in the workplace.

Check out our guidance on what employers can do to support their workers and the role of the occupational safety and health professional in this.

"Now that mental health at work is accepted as an occupational safety and health issue, the golden principle must be applied: “predict to be preventative”. A strategy must be predominantly focused on the prevention and control of common stressors rather than recovery post-incident."

Duncan Spencer

Job role
Head of Advice and Practice
Company
IOSH
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This course for managers and supervisors covers work-related and non-work-related illness and how these have an impact at work.

It looks at the benefits of a collaborative approach and how to obtain expert help and understand what assistance is available.

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Is everyone in your organisation comfortable being themselves?

We're urging employers to foster inclusive cultures where neurodiverse employees can freely discuss their needs. 

In our white paper, we look at the value of providing a supportive environment in which neurodivergent employees can thrive and all employees can be their happiest and most productive. 

  • Workplace wellbeing

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    We conducted a survey to get a clearer picture of what is being done in the workplace to support those with mental health problems.

    Workplace wellbeing

  • Hands on: preventing work-related upper limb disorders

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    We commissioned this research into preventing work-related upper limb disorders in hand-intensive healthcare occupations.

    Hands on: preventing work-related upper limb disorders

“…Training products such as those from IOSH have helped change perceptions. And when that happens, it’s a powerful thing. So that’s why we’ll continue to use IOSH training – it’s been effective for our business and has definitely worked. At the end of the day, everyone who works for us needs to return home safe and well. That’s why we remain so committed to safety and health.”

Sarah Kench

Job role
Joint managing director
Company
Twinfix