Mental health

The first global standard to provide employers with practical guidance on how to manage psychosocial risks to staff in the workplace has been finalised.

We speak to Benjamin Legg, global health, safety and wellbeing director at infrastructure giant Ferrovial,

The IOSH-funded MENTOR study explored the role of mental health first aid and barriers to its success. Three years on from its publication, in the midst of a pandemic, how has mental health support progressed?

A mental health programme is being piloted in SMEs across the construction, health and IT sectors in Australia and eight European countries.

The forthcoming ISO 45003 standard focuses on the mental health in ‘health and safety’ and offers timely guidance on how to protect the psychosocial wellbeing of staff.

Employers and staff are faced with the perfect storm of high demands with an unstable outlook.

The pandemic has created what the UN describes as 'a perfect storm' for domestic abuse.

More than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.

A new research study into workers’ mental health problems has called on employers to take greater account of an individual’s needs when planning their return to work.

Workplaces have become part of a national conversation on mental health and stress, but the tension between individual interventions and structural change remains.