April Newsletter: Stress Awareness Month Edition
Construction Health and Wellbeing LTD
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We're pleased to present our April newsletter, focusing on Stress Awareness Month, a critical initiative not just this month but throughout the year. At Construction Health and Wellbeing, we understand the significance of addressing stress-related challenges in the construction industry. That's why we're offering valuable resources which you can find below:
How To Do Stress Risk Assessment
As responsible employers, we must proactively identify, manage, and mitigate stress among our workforce, extending our duty of care to all individuals within our operational sphere, including contractors.
Our webinar recording on stress risk assessment is specifically tailored for the construction sector, featuring expert speaker Wendy Jones. If you’re looking for guidance and support on how to undertake a stress risk assessment for your organisation and project you will find great guidance and advice in this webinar.
You can watch the webinar by clicking HERE
Stress Risk Management Checklist
To assess your organisation's readiness in safeguarding against mental ill-health caused by stress, we invite you to participate in our self-assessment tool. Take our test and see if your processes make the cut.
You can find the self assessment test HERE
Stress and Mental Health in Construction: Are You Doing Enough?
Delve into our thought-provoking blog post, "Stress and Mental Health in Construction: Are You Doing Enough?" we cover the following:
You can find the full article HERE
External Resources
Additionally, we recognise the importance of external support. Organisations such as Mates in Mind and the Health and Safety Executive WORK RIGHT campaign offer's invaluable resources and guidance in navigating stress-related challenges in the workplace.
Mates in Mind have several resources, including posters, toolbox talks and handbooks specifically for stress awareness. Available HERE.
The HSE provides 5 steps you can take in 5 weeks to help reduce the impact of stress in the workplace:
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They also provide resources to help implement these steps which can be found HERE
Together we can create a happier and healthier construction industry.
Prostate and Bowel Cancer Health Checks
In alignment with our commitment to holistic wellbeing, we recognise the benefit of individual focused initiatives and offer a variety of health checks. This month we are shining a spotlight on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer and bowel cancer screening, as part of our ongoing health promotion efforts.
These simple tests can be be implemented at site level, If you are interested in understanding more please contact us by filling in our contact form HERE
New Training Course launched in 2024 – Putting The “Health and Wellbeing” into Safety
Do you have a strong safety culture but haven’t really addressed health? Do you want to up-skill your teams to understand their roles and responsibilities for health and wellbeing, and to apply the same approach as they do for safety?
Our new 1 day, construction specific, training course will enhance individuals knowledge on health and wellbeing. It is aimed at H&S manager’s, construction teams and health and wellbeing champions.
Individuals will already have an understanding of safety, but want to apply a “health like safety” approach. The course will cover:
Register your interest by filling in our contact form HERE