by James Marsh | Sep 23, 2014 | The HR Shop - Product Focus
Ensuring the health and safety of your staff is an essential duty for any employer. If your company employs five people or more, you are required by law to have a written health and safety policy. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), over 27 million...
by Paul Gray | Jun 12, 2014
Preventative strategies to ensure your workforce is healthy, productive and engaged A recent survey by SimplyHealth and the CIPD found that absence rates across the UK are on the rise again and there has been a particular increase in the number of mental health...
by Jonathan Savage | May 15, 2014 | HR Blogs
By Jonathan Savage, 12 – 18 May marks Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual campaign to raise awareness of the fact that, on average, one in four of us will be affected by mental illness at some point in our lives. This year the campaign is looking at Anxiety. We...
by Ann McCracken | May 14, 2014 | HR Blogs
By Ann McCracken, We have recently been asked to provide a course on Mental Health Awareness and I have discovered that like the word “stress” there is confusion about the meaning of “mental health”. WHO defines Mental Health it as: A person’s overall emotional...