In the dynamic landscape of remote work, the benefits of flexibility and autonomy are accompanied by the potential pitfalls of burnout. It has become crucial to recognise and address the subtle indicators of staff burnout. In this article, we explore three warning signs that may signal your team members are experiencing the detrimental effects of excessive stress and fatigue while working from home.
By understanding these red flags, employers can proactively implement strategies to grow a healthier work environment and support their staff's wellbeing in the virtual realm.
Managing mental health in the workplace is vital for employee wellbeing. However, it's an ongoing process which doesn’t have an instant fix – it needs be championed by senior leaders and managers but also with forward-thinking training initiatives and continuing support.
In this article we are going to explore how to address mental health issues in the workplace, a manager’s impact on mental health and how to improve employee wellbeing.
The 6C’s of care are designed inform the culture and practice of health and social care providers. They comprise of 6 care values for employees, leaders, and organisations working in health and social care. The 6C’s place the interests of patients and service users first and foremost.
In this article we will explore the 6C’s of care, why these care values are important, and how following the 6C’s can shape your policies and procedures to help you to become and remain a high-quality care provider.
Health and safety in the workplace is an important aspect of any business, and employers have a legal and moral obligation to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their employees. However, ensuring that employees are trained in health and safety can be a daunting task, particularly with the vast range of health and safety training options and providers available.
In this blog, we will explore how businesses can find the best health and safety training to fulfil their specific needs. We will delve into the benefits of health and safety CPD courses, H&S certification training and the advantages of health and safety eLearning courses. Whether you are a small business owner or part of a larger corporation, this blog will provide you with useful insights to help you make informed decisions when selecting the best health and safety training for your workforce.
UK law requires all employers in all sectors to evaluate and manage all health and safety risks of all staff working on their own. It is their duty to ensure the safety and well-being of any contractors or self-employed personnel working for them. For cleaners, lone working is often the norm as many of these types of contracts are delivered outside standard working hours.
- Topic:
- ERP
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The Access Group have been working closely with the national charity Bipolar UK to design an accessible eLearning module that will increase the understanding of bipolar disorder. Stuart Parker is a Senior Learning Designer for Access Learning course content, specialising in course design for Mental Health and Wellbeing awareness training.
In this blog he describes how he and the learning content team have been working in collaboration with the charity, aiming to reduce the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder whilst explaining the intricacies of it.
In this blog we’ll discuss:
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- How Bipolar differs to other mental health conditions – some stats
- Why we are supporting the charity Bipolar UK
- Ensuring credibility and authenticity
- The free course we have created and how to access it
Many people aspire to become a parent, however, infertility is becoming more common. On average one in six couples are impacted by fertility challenges in the UK1. Undergoing a fertility journey is mentally and physically exhausting. The process is demanding, invasive and places a strain on mental health with no real certainty of success.
Many people leaders are all too familiar with the additional HR challenges that can arise at Christmas time, from constant enquiries about payday to dips in productivity, last-minute annual leave requests and potential Christmas party fallout.
But that’s all in the Christmas past for many, who likely manage (and therefore pre-empt) any festive related HR issues in their HR software. So that’s Christmas present handled too.
But how do HR managers prepare for a Christmas future yet to come, and avoid being haunted by failed HR strategies that came before? Can you judge how successful your HR strategy has been this year for example, and make decisions on where to focus next year?
- Topic:
- Human Resources
If there could be such a thing as a positive outcome from Covid-19, it’s that workplace safety, health and wellbeing has been elevated to a tier one consideration for many organisations and its individuals. Which is really where it always should have been.
The key to creating a physically and mentally healthier workplace culture however, is to not treat responses to occupational health and safety risk with quick fixes, to try and plaster over specific challenges.
Health and safety training is often the biggest tick-box for compliance, but how do you embed training into the rest of your health and safety risk management processes to effectively manage health and safety risk and evidence compliance when it matters?
As COVID-19 restrictions are easing across the UK, businesses are looking ahead over the coming weeks and planning how their workforce can make a safe transition to new working conditions. In this article, we examine the health and safety issues which need to be considered from two perspectives.
So much has changed over the last year as the pandemic caused untold disruption to businesses and their staff. Large numbers of people have been forced to work from home and others have had to adjust to more restrictive conditions and protocols when still attending their usual place of work – or have been furloughed and unable to attend at all. Now we are heading towards another shift and HR teams across the UK are working out the details and practicalities of who should return, when, and what the working environment looks like.
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- Human Resources
