All Mental health resilience articles – Page 66
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Article
DOD’s blog: Egging on healthy engagement at work
Last week I did a speaking stint on the same platform as a couple of Towers Watson consultants who were talking about their latest health and wellbeing research.As I sat and listened to their presentation it struck me how leading UK HR and benefits managers are really ‘getting’ employee health ...
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Analysis
How to manage workplace stress
Last year, we noticed our sickness absence levels were rising, and that staff were increasingly mentioning stress and anxiety as the cause of their absence. This prompted us to undertake an employee survey, which revealed increased levels of stress compared with previous survey results.We wanted to take positive steps to ...
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Analysis
How to manage mental health issues
At any one time, about one in six workers is experiencing mental health difficulties, according to Taking care of business, Employers’ guide to mentally healthy workplaces, published by Mind in May 2010. The most common issues are anxiety, depression and unmanageable stress.Mental health problems can originate outside work or from ...
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Video
Jill Cunnison: Top tips to tackle stress and mental wellbeing
Jill Cunnison, head of benefits and HR operations at Capital One, talks to Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, during Employee Benefits Live 2012 about what HR and benefits managers can do to tackle stress and mental wellbeing in the workplace.She shares clever ideas that can be simple to implement ...
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Article
Work is most stressful factor in people’s lives
Work is the most stressful factor in people’s lives, according to research by mental health charity Mind.The research, which surveyed more than 2,000 working adults, found that 34% of respondents said their work life was either very or quite stressful, more so than debt or financial problems (30%) or health ...
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Article
Physiotherapy union switches EAP provider
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) has switched the provider of its employee assistance programme (EAP).The physiotherapy union, which has 51,000 members, has appointed The Validium Group to provide the progragmme.Andrea Barber, head of human resources at CSP, said that the union wanted to have a support service in place ...
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Opinion
Louise Aston: Mental health must be taken seriously
We are working in really tough times, which look set to continue. Across the UK, people are putting in longer hours, are more stressed and feel anxious about the future. Indeed, with one in four people experiencing a mental health problem within their lifetime, it is now more important than ...
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Article
Employers must play role in reducing workplace stress
Almost half (48%) of employee respondents said that stress impacts negatively on their working life, according to research by Canada Life Group.The research, which surveyed 1,613 UK employees, found that, of those who found their anxieties impacted on their working life in 2012, 20% said their employer was understanding, 8% ...
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Article
Employees want more festive stress support
Employee respondents would have liked to receive more emotional or stress-related support from their employer during the festive period, according to research by Canada Life Group.The research, which surveyed 1,613 employees, found that 13% of respondents received additional access to emotional or stress-related support from their employer, while a further ...
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Article
East Midlands police roll out EAP
EXCLUSIVE: Police authorities in the East Midlands have launched an employee assistance programme (EAP) through a framework agreement.The EAP, which went live on 1 January 2013, is available to staff at Derbyshire Constabulary, Leicestershire Police Authority, Lincolnshire Police, Northamptonshire Police and Nottinghamshire Police through the agreement.It is administered by East ...
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Buyer's guide to employee assistance programmes
Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are a great way for employers to support staff, particularly during an economic downturn. They provide independent and anonymous telephone, online and face-to-face counselling for employees with psychological issues or debt and financial problems, as well as those requiring child, eldercare and legal information and guidance.Debt ...
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GE Healthcare staff take part in festive run
EXCLUSIVE: GE Healthcare employees have taken part in a festive-themed five-kilometre charity fun run as part of its HealthAhead programme.The programme, which aims to promote healthy living for all employees, focuses on issues such as nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation and stress management.The 70 fun-run participants, dressed in costumes ranging ...
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Article
CIC launches Arabic counselling service
CIC has launched an employee assistance programme (EAP), specifically aimed at British-Arabs or those relocating to the UK for work.Its Arabic Counselling Support Service will provide confidential therapeutic services and emotional support. Individuals can access a free helpline to speak with an Arabic-speaking counsellor.Kate Nowlan, chief executive at CIC, said: ...
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Article
EAP guidelines published
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Employee Assistance Professionals Association (UK EAPA) has published a set of guidelines that provide an up-to-date review of issues relating to the commissioning, delivery and evaluation of employee assistance programmes (EAPs).The guidelines, which include a foreword from Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster ...
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Cabinet Office awards EAP agreement
The Cabinet Office has awarded four providers a framework agreement to deliver pan-government employee assistance programme (EAP) services.The agreement was awarded as part of a tender process carried out by the government procurement service.Government departments have the option to select a preferred supplier from the four providers. Alternatively, the four ...
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Awareness day highlights workplace stress
Work-related stress issues lead to less engagement, more day-to-day physical health problems and a higher likelihood of day-to-day psychological health problems, according to research by wellbeing specialists Robertson Cooper.The research, which coincides with National Stress Awareness Day on 7 November, found that, of the 47% of respondents who have encountered ...
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Article
Stress is top health risk to employers
Stress among employees is considered the top health risk to organisations, according to research by group risk industry trade body, Group Risk Development (Grid).Its Group risk employer research study, which surveyed 500 employers in October, found that 21% of respondents named stress and mental health issues as the number one ...
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Article
GE Healthcare wins award for staff healthcare
GE Healthcare has been awarded the UK’s Royal Society of Public Health’s Health promotion and community wellbeing award 2012 for its employee health and wellness programme.GE has offered the programme, HealthAhead, to its 300,000 employees worldwide since 2010. It is available to GE Healthcare’s 46,000 employees.The programme covers issues such ...
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Article
Higher priority given to staff mental health
Some employers are taking action, such as accountancy ?rm Deloitte, which unveiled a black dog statue at its London of?ces to show its commitment to the Black Dog campaign, run by the charity Sane to support mental health.The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)/Simplyhealth absence management survey found that ...
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Opinion
David Smith: EAPs prove their value for wellbeing
Despite the fact that many employers perceive employee health and wellbeing as a cost, and that many are under pressure to reduce benefi ts costs, in reality today’s economic and cultural environment actually requires investment in staff wellbeing to maintain engagement, performance and productivity.The value of such investment is underlined ...