Wellbeing
Helping you tackle work-related stress
This week we celebrated World Mental Health Day, and whilst shining a light on such an important topic is essential, it’s something we should be acknowledging daily. One huge contributor to poor mental health is work-related stress. Tackling work-related stress is not only a legal requirement, but it can boost performance, reduce accidents, and improve attendance.
One way to help support your employees when it comes to work-related stress is stress risk assessments. To help you get to grips with carrying out a thorough stress risk assessment our Commercial Partner, Citation have shared this great FREE guide. Download now and become an expert in stress risk assessments, spotting the signs of work-related stress and how to help and support your employees when they need it most.
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Do you prevent employee burnout?
Over the past few years, we know that the care sector has faced many struggles with one of those being the pressure and stress employees have held. Nearly a quarter of employees have reported feeling burned out during work often or always. To help support your members and their employees our team have put together a free guide with the top tips for preventing employee burnout.
After the past few years it’s no surprise your staff may be feeling mentally exhausted. Nearly a quarter (23%) of employees have reported feeling burned out during work very often or always, whilst an additional 44% reported feeling burned out sometimes. But do you know how your employees are feeling? Do you prevent them from burning out?
To help you prevent your essential care employees burning out our HR and Health & Safety Commercial Partner, Citation, have create an exclusive visual checklist containing advisory tips and best practice measures from their experts, including:
Engaging with your workforce
Addressing workforce pressures
Making them feel valued
Prioritising annual leave
Creating a good work environment, plus much more!
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Your handy free guide to heat stress at work
When the temperature soars and the mercury starts rising, it’s very easy for you and your people to get flustered and frustrated with the rising heat.
Whether you work outside in the heat or you’re an office-based business, the heat can get to all of us. And as an employer, you have a legal obligation to look after the Health & Safety of everyone on your business’ premises.
In this exclusive free guide, C&SW Commercial Partner, Citation, have put together a beginners’ guide to heat stress in the workplace for employers.
DOWNLOAD: https://tinyurl.com/yx6y2388
Some key areas the guide covers include what is heat stress, spotting the signs and symptoms, conducting proper risk assessments, and how to limit heat-based risk in 8 simple steps.
Top tips for preventing employee burnout: FREE guide for employers
According to a recent study, nearly a quarter (23%) of employees reported feeling burned out during work very often or always, while an additional 44% reported feeling burned out sometimes. But how do you prevent your employees from burning out?
To give you a helping hand, the HR & Employment Law experts of Preferred Partner Care & Support West, Citation, have created an exclusive checklist on employee burnout.
DOWNLOAD: https://tinyurl.com/3z9wzaf9
Some key areas the guide covers include the importance of engaging with your workforce, addressing workforce pressures, making employees feel valued, prioritising annual leave and finally, creating a good work environment.
Following the tragic death by suicide of a person living in a local care home earlier this year (2021), North Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board identified that there is a national and global lack of research or policy guidance in reference to such events in care homes.
In response, NSSAB offer this improving practice briefing as brief read to assist providers’ practice and confidence, with the intention of preventing deaths.
Please take 5 minutes to consider these recommendations and familiarise yourself with the suggested resources and share this with relevant colleagues.
This will also be made available on the board website www.nssab.co.uk for future reference.
Tackling sexual harassment in the workplace | free guide for C&SW members
Last summer, the government confirmed they’ll be reforming the Equality Act, putting more emphasis and pressure on employees to prove they’ve taken positive action to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Three out of four people have reported their experiences of harassment at work. As a result, the government is increasing pressure on employers to take action. But with so many factors to consider, we understand it can be difficult to know where to start.
To help you understand your responsibilities, Care and Support West commercial partner Citation, have put together a comprehensive free guide on improving quality, diversity, and inclusion – from creating a policy to support your employees, to spotting signs of discrimination.
Stress awareness month: must-read free guide on stress risk assessments
The Health & Safety Executive report that 11 million working days are lost per year due to stress, depression, and anxiety. Across April, stress awareness month aims to raise awareness of the damaging impact stress has on both employees and businesses.
One of the most important ways employers can deter workplace stress is by conducting a stress risk assessment. Like completing a risk assessment for a new piece of machinery or task, employers are legally obliged to risk assess for workplace stress.
This beginner's guide from the experts of Care & Support West, Citation, will take you through the essential need-to-knows about tackling workplace stress, including:
What are stress risk assessments?
Who is at risk of workplace stress?
Why are stress risk assessments so important?
What are some common sources of workplace stress?
What are the signs of stress?
To help, the Commercial Partner of Care & Support West, Citation, have created a dedicated FREE guide to stress risk assessments: https://tinyurl.com/cswstressapr22