Create A Healthy Workplace
There are certain things any employer can do to tackle stress at work
These 'stress busters' include:
- Provide stress management courses for staff see additional support.
- Ensure there is time for staff to feedback how they are feeling in meetings or at reviews and appraisals
- Monitor stress at work see our health check
- Be willing to talk openly with employees
- Provide information about your company EAP programme
- Create a no-blame culture
- Encourage clear, open and honest communication
- Be positive about reasonable adjustments
- Provide training on how to recognise mental health issues see additional support
- Create a pleasant environment to work in, try adding plants and pictures
- Ensure staff take their lunch breaks and monitor working hours
- Arrange occasional team building events
So how do you maintain a healthy workplace? Sometimes stress is unavoidable at work but there are plenty of things you can do to help people handle it like:
Have clear statements and policies on mental health
so that employees feel secure in disclosing mental health issues. See our guidance on developing a mental health policy.
Provide assertiveness, leadership and interpersonal skills training
These training courses are really valuable in helping people recognise and review their management and communication style and the impact this has on other people. See additional support.
Encourage group cohesion
Through team meetings and bonding events to ensure that any individual managing a mental health condition isn't isolated from the group.
