Fruit on Fridays won’t cut it when it comes to protecting your workers’ mental wellbeing. Risks to wellbeing must be confronted and managed systematically, and managers must lead that.”Here are six lessons from the Forum’s guide:Risks to mental wellbeing can affect every person and every businessEvery single one of us has mental wellbeing and risks to our wellbeing are present in all types of work. There is no such thing as a single ‘psychosocial’ riskToo often, mental wellbeing risks are bundled together as ‘psychosocial risk’ or ‘mental health risks’. Mental wellbeing operates on a continuumPeople can move up and down a mental wellbeing continuum in response to circumstances – personal, work, social, and global – ranging from thriving, to going OK, to struggling, to being unwell. The Forum’s guide, Protecting Mental Wellbeing at Work, helps organisations and their leaders to understand the risks to mental wellbeing in their business, and to do something about them.

Source: Stuff May 23, 2021 12:56 UTC