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Developing your mental health policy
This guide, from Healthy Working Lives, explains why a mental health policy is important for your workplace, and outlines who you should consult when first creating one.
Healthy Working Lives
Healthy Working Lives is an organisation that provides employers in Scotland with workplace health, safety and wellbeing information.
It is a free and confidential NHS service to help employers understand, protect and improve the health and wellbeing of their workforce. It can also help to support employees with health problems to remain in work or return to work.
Healthy Working Lives’ programmes and services are delivered by NHS Health Scotland, a national health board, in partnership with Scotland’s 14 local NHS Boards.
Resources from this organisation:
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Ill health and absence
As an employer, navigating the absence and return to work process of employees can be a challenge. Healthy Working Lives makes it easy to understand in this section of their website.
Healthy Working Lives offers a variety of training and events, including specific courses on mental health. Use their calendar to find and book events in Scotland.
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Work Positive
An amount of pressure is often good for productivity, but excessive stress can lead to physical and mental health problems. Work Positive is a free online survey that can help assess your employees' stress levels.
As an employer, you have a crucial role to play in supporting the health and wellbeing of your employees, whether the problems are related to work or not.
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Importance of mental health
Understand your legal duty of care to support the mental health of your employees with this simple guide from Healthy Working Lives.
Following the introduction of 'fit notes' to encourage those on long-term sick leave to make an early return to work, this guide focuses on the key behaviours managers need to support employees.
We all know that stress is a risk factor in the workplace. Using this flowchart, you can find out if you have the right processes in place to manage the risks.
