Protect your employees' mental health – it’s not a red card offence
Now we’re introducing the next phase, and that’s to get businesses taking action. So to help, this year we will be providing resources and tools to help facilitate action, as well as celebrating those businesses who are already employing tactics to protect their teams’ mental health.
The Not A Red Card Awards
Legal & General’s new awards look to recognise best practices around Mental Health in the Workplace. We want to celebrate businesses, and their employees, that have developed and implemented successful strategies to tackling mental health issues.
Show us how your business is taking action
Whether you’ve embraced the discussion of mental health in the workplace, created a truly innovative programme for preventative care, or devised an initiative for awareness and education – there’s a category that’s right for you. And any business can enter, large or small.
The categories are:
- Collaboration Award
- Innovation use of Sport Award
- Best Mental Health Initiative – SME
- Best Mental Health Initiative – Larger companies
- The Inspiration Award.
Full details, entry requirements and terms are available online. The winners will be announced at our Not A Red Card forum on 30 October 2018 .
Why it’s important to protect your team’s mental health
Mental health, including stress, is the biggest cause of employee absence in the UK – lasting four weeks or more. It’s also the second biggest cause of shorter absences too. So as you can see, it can have huge impact on business productivity.
Our recent research showed that 78 per cent of employers believe their employees would feel comfortable talking about depression and anxiety at work. Yet only four per cent of employees who have experienced depression, and five per cent who have experienced anxiety, actually feel able to talk to their employer about it in practice.
The case to tackle mental health is clear. We can all benefit from learning about how to create a work environment where employees feel able to talk about their mental wellbeing.
Show us how you’re protecting your team’s mental health. Enter our Not A Red Card Awards.
This article was provided by Legal & General.
Legal & General is sponsoring REBA's Employee Wellbeing Congress 2018, which is being held on 5 July in London.
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