Mental Health and Work

How’s your business feeling?
Positive Mental Health at Work: a practical guide

This interactive self-assessment and training resource helps managers and organisations to create a mentally healthy workplace that is inclusive and supportive of people with experience of mental health problems.

It takes the user through a series of self-assessment questions and highlights practical, achievable steps that can be taken to improve mental well-being in the workplace.

It helps organisations to:

• Understand what’s needed for a mentally healthy workplace

• Assess how mentally healthy the workplace is

• Decide what action to take and put this into practice

• Comply with legislation

• Create a more mentally healthy workplace

The resource is based on national and local best practice and presents information and guidance in user-friendly way. The focus is on helping organisations to understand their responsibilities with regard to mental health at work and what they can do in practice.

To access the resource on-line visit: www.howsyourbusinessfeeling.org.uk

For a copy of the resource on CD Rom, contact Stoke-on-Trent PCT on 01782 298055.  

Why consider mental health at work?

Because the potential benefits of improving mental health are considerable and because employers have a legal duty to do so.

• A mentally healthy workplace will benefit from:
  Improved productivity
  Reduced staff turnover and recruitment costs
  Reduced sickness absence
  Improved public image

• All organisations have a responsibility to consider mental health under the Disability Discrimination Act and Health and Safety at Work legislation.   

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