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While firms and companies have been increasing focussed on the health and safety of their staff over the past few years, the same concern for their employee’s mental health’s concerns at their place of work is a far more recent phenomenon.

A survey by the Confederation of British Industry reported that over 90% of its correspondents believed that the mental health of employees should be a concern of their company. Unfortunately, less than 10% of businesses actually have a mental health policy in place.

With more and more the workforce spending an increasing amount of their time at their places of work, the state of their mental health is becoming ever more important. This alone should ensure that stress management and mental health in the workplace is as equally as important as other employee health and safety issues. Indeed, it could be argued that stress management and mental health issues should be of paramount importance.

The good news is that more companies are now becoming aware of mental health issues within the workforce and actively encourage management and staff to attend training courses designed to being stress under control in the workplace.

Such stress and mental health courses are crucial because it enables staff to recognise the impending effects of stress in themselves or workmates and also helps them deal with it.

It is important that businesses take advantage of the courses that are available as a stressed workforce will, in the long term, negatively impact on productivity and profitability. In the short term it will cause problems on the shop floor as well as a rise in absenteeism. Sending staff on a mental health training course will provide solutions for those already feeling the pressures of stress but will also be a pre-emptive safeguard to other employees who will learn how to identify the symptoms of stress and be able to take measures to ensure that stress doesn’t develop.

A huge benefit from attending mental health in the workplace awareness courses is that both management and staff will gain vital knowledge recognising stress and by learning what makes it occur.

Mindworks Training are located in Hull and offer corporate mental health training courses including Stress Managemnt Training for employers wishing to increase the effectiveness of their workforce by raising awareness of stress and other mental health issues