About Workplace Mental Health
The People Closest to the Risk: Why Worker Consultation Is the Control Most Organisations Skip
Worker consultation is a legal duty and the control most organisations skip. How to involve your people in managing stress and psychosocial risk at work.
Why an Employee Assistance Programme Is Not a Mental Health Strategy
An employee assistance programme supports people once they are struggling. Why it cannot replace risk assessment, and how to make it part of a real plan.
Restructures and Redundancy: The Psychosocial Risk Most Organisations Never Assess
Redundancy and mental health: why restructures are a psychosocial hazard for leavers and stayers, what the law expects, and how to assess the risk first.
How to Talk About Suicide at Work: The Words That Open a Door
Talking about suicide at work saves more than it risks. What to say, the words to avoid, and why managers need a clear route after the conversation ends.
A Psychosocial Risk Assessment You Do Not Act On Leaves You Worse Off Than One You Never Did
Here is a question I ask organisations more often than they expect. Why would you do a risk assessment and then not act on it? It sounds rhetorical. It is not. It happens constantly, and the reasoning behind it is usually sincere. The assessment gets done because somebody knows it should be done. The findings […]
Suicide Postvention in the Workplace: How to Respond When the Worst Happens
Most conversations about suicide at work focus on prevention, and rightly so. But there is a harder question that far fewer organisations have thought through: what do you do in the hours, days and weeks after a colleague dies by suicide? That is the work of suicide postvention, and it is one of the areas […]
Psychosocial Risk Is Not a Budget Item: You Have the Risk Whether You Fund It or Not
There is a conversation I have with organisations more often than any other, and it almost always happens near the end of the meeting. Everyone agrees that psychological risk matters. It is then placed at the end of the budget, to be picked up when there is room. Next financial year, perhaps. The year after, […]
Reasonable Adjustments for Mental Health: A Practical Guide for Employers
Reasonable adjustments for mental health are one of the most misunderstood duties an employer holds. Many organisations still treat them as a kindness they may or may not extend, when in fact they are a legal requirement under the Equality Act 2010, the law that protects people from discrimination at work. With the Health and […]
Duty of Care During an Investigation: Safeguarding the Person in the Eye of the Storm
There has been a great deal in the media over the last few weeks about safeguarding, and about what organisations owe people who are vulnerable. Most of the commentary has been about process. Very little of it has been about the person at the centre. The case that has drawn the most attention is the […]
Workplace Burnout: What the Latest Data Shows and What Employers Can Actually Do
Workplace burnout is no longer a fringe concern that sits at the edge of the wellbeing agenda. It is now one of the defining occupational health issues of our time, and the numbers make that plain. The Health and Safety Executive recorded 964,000 workers suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2024/25, a 24 […]