Links
to resources
Sample policies
(ACAS
(Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration
Service) Provides advice and guidance
on a range of workplace issues. In addition to written
resources, ACAS provides consultancy services which aim to help you
understand what needs to be done to address a range of issues
related to health and wellbeing and then work with you
to develop practical solutions. There is a work
programme which is specifically for small businesses as well as
resources for new employers. Many of ACAS’s publications
include sample policies.
Managing
attendance and employee turnover
This booklet includes a sample managing
absence policy.
Work-related stress: What the law says
This guide summarises the legal duties that
employers have to reduce, and where possible prevent, work-related
stress impacting on the health of their employees. It has
been produced by the HSE, ACAS, CIPD and Health, Work and
Well-being.
Chartered
Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)
Stress
and mental health at work, 2010
This link includes a section on developing a
stress policy and what issues the policy should include.
Shaw Trust
Tackling
the last workplace taboo
This website has been developed by the Shaw
Trust. This section makes the case for developing a workplace
mental health policy. It includes the key issues which the
policy should include and address as well as support for
implementing the policy such as staff training.
Realising
ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental
health condition
Rachel Perkins,
Paul Farmer and Paul Litchfield
Department for Work and
Pensions, December 2009
This review was commissioned by the Secretary
of State for Work and Pensions to look at mental health and
employment and to identify how Government could help people with
mental health conditions fulfil their employment ambitions.
Appendix 5 summarises an
example of good practice from British Telecom (BT). BT
has a mental health framework which underpins one of five key
themes in its ‘people strategy’.
Training courses
MIND
Mind Workplace provides consultancy and
training for employers on mental health, enhancing productivity by
improving business practices, including through providing training
such as the ‘Managing mental health’ course.
Surveys
Depression Alliance
The
inside story: the impact of depression on daily life
This report of a survey of members of
Depression Alliance reveals some of the key actions that employers
could take to support employees with experience of
depression.
Annual Survey Report 2010, Absence Management
This report of the 11th annual
survey carried out among 573 organisations. The report
provides benchmarking data for organisations on absence levels and
the cost and causes of absence. This year there are topical
sections about employee wellbeing and the effect of the economic
climate on absence. These sections highlight the vital need for
organisations to manage employee absence effectively. The report
includes two case studies which focus on early interventions to
minimise absence.
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