Occupational health and wellbeing

New and updated

• Type:

  How to

  How to introduce and manage mental health first-aid provision in the workplace

  Practical guidance on introducing a successful mental health first-aid programme, including the options for training, the role of mental health first-aiders and the additional support they may need.

• Date:

  1 November 2018

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Practical strategies for supporting mental health at work

  Our expert speakers draw on real-life cases to demonstrate the successes and difficulties of putting in place pragmatic support for mental health.

• Date:

  16 July 2018

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Managing mental health in the workplace

  Promoting mental wellbeing at work is crucial not only to the health of your workforce, but ultimately the success of your business. A lack of support and understanding around mental health can lead to increased sickness absence, raised staff turnover and a loss of productivity.

• Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Stress

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Checklist for holding meeting to discuss phased return to work following long-term sickness absence

  A model checklist to use when holding a meeting at which an employee's phased return to work following long-term sickness absence is discussed.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter setting out revised arrangements following review meeting to discuss progress of phased return to work following long-term sickness absence

  A model letter setting out any revised arrangements following a review meeting to discuss the progress of an employee's phased return to work following long-term sickness absence.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form to record meeting to discuss phased return to work following long-term sickness absence

  A model form to record meeting to discuss a phased return to work following long-term sickness absence.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter explaining to employee that it may be detrimental to refuse to consent to medical report

  A model letter in circumstances where an employee objects to the organisation seeking a medical report on them (or to its subsequent disclosure by the doctor to the organisation).

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter notifying employee that application for medical report has been made to medical professional

  A model letter where the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 applies to notify an employee that an application to a medical professional for a medical report has been made, where the employee has given their consent to the employer seeking the report.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for employee who has asked to see medical report to consent to release to employer

  A model form where the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 applies, to provide the employee with a means to inform the medical professional that they consent to the supply of a medical report to the organisation.