Do Employers Have a Legal Responsibility for Work-Related Stress? Work-related stress is not simply an employee wellbeing issue. Employers have legal responsibilities to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees, and this includes taking reasonable steps to protect them from excessive workplace stress. Under UK health and safety law, employers have a duty...Continue reading
What Are the 6 HSE Management Standards? The 6 HSE Management Standards provide a framework to help employers identify and manage some of the key causes of work-related stress. Developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), they focus on six areas of work that, when poorly managed, can contribute to increased stress and negatively...
There's a version of this scene playing out in offices across the country right now. Someone's been a bit quieter than usual. Their replies to emails have got shorter. They're taking longer lunches, or none at all. Nobody says anything, because nobody's quite sure what to say, or whether it's their place to say it....Continue reading
You've rolled out the training. Updated the policy. Told people, more than once, that it's safe to speak up if they're struggling. And people still aren't speaking up. Someone mentions it to a friend outside work instead, or says "I'm fine" in a one-to-one and means the opposite. If you've ever wondered why your wellbeing...Continue reading
Last week, we looked at the reality of what's landed on managers' plates — the mental health conversations they're expected to have, the emotional weight they carry, and the fact that most of them were never trained for any of it. If you missed it, you can catch up here. This week, we're moving from...Continue reading
Think about the last time a manager had to sit across from someone who was clearly struggling. Not performing well. Withdrawn. Maybe tearful. Maybe just... off. What's the script for that moment? Where's the training that tells you how to hold space for someone else's pain without absorbing it yourself, how to ask the right...Continue reading
Remote work promised us flexibility, autonomy, and better work-life balance. And for many people, it delivered. For others, it quietly introduced something harder to name: a low-level disconnection, a creeping sense of isolation, or a working day that never quite ends. The reality is that remote working doesn’t affect everyone the same way. Some people...Continue reading
You've probably heard the terms. Borderline Personality Disorder. BPD. Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. EUPD. But unless you work in mental health services, there's a reasonable chance they've never come up in a management meeting, a wellbeing review, or a conversation about workplace culture. And that silence is a problem. Because according to NHS England's Adult...Continue reading
There's something worth sitting with after a week like Mental Health Awareness Week. The conversations happen. The green ribbons go on. The LinkedIn posts get written. And then Friday arrives, the week ends, and for many organisations... things quietly return to normal. It's not a criticism. Awareness is genuinely important; it reduces stigma, creates opportunities...Continue reading
Someone on your team has had a rough few days. They've been a bit quieter than usual, slower to respond, not quite themselves. Everyone's noticed, but everyone's also busy, so the moment passes, and nothing is said. They go home on Friday feeling invisible. No one meant for that to happen. It just did. This...Continue reading