Mental health awareness week: business toolkit
When your employees feel good inside, they’re much more likely to perform better and take less time off work.
Mental Health Awareness Week is from 15 to 21 May. The focus this year is anxiety. Here’s why mental health should be a top priority for your business.
How does this affect your business?
The Health and Safety Executive estimate that more than 17 million work days were lost between 2021 and 2022 due to work-related stress, depression and anxiety.
Taking steps to make changes at work can really help with managing work-related anxiety. It can also help colleagues to perform better at work.
We’ve put together some expert-approved tools and resources for you to share that raise awareness of the importance of looking after your mental health.
For your business
- Employer internal communication on looking after your mental health
- Workplace Health Insights – Every mind matters event recording
Guidance and support for line-managers
- Open up at work: Manager’s guide
- How learning can benefit your team’s mental health: Manager’s guide
- Managing loneliness in the workplace
Resources to share with your team
- Mental Health Hub
- Coping with anxiety about world events
- Inside Health | Family mental health video
- Coping with loneliness
Tools from Bupa
- Watch this video to find out about the Workplace Mental Health Advantage proposition and how it can help everyone in your business thrive.
- SilverCloud intranet copy
- Bupa Academy Mental Health module leaflet
- Family Mental HealthLine leaflet
- Direct Access mental health brochure.
For more information on mental wellbeing, head to Mind, Samaritans, Young Minds or Mental Health Foundation.
In partnership with Bupa
Bupa's purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
