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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