Managing mental health and stress: Meeting your moral and legal duties

Megan Roche

Senior Employment Law Consultant

Megan Roche

Senior Employment Law Consultant

About this upcoming session

Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, you’re legally bound to protect your employees’ health, safety, and wellbeing—and this extends to mental health.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that last year, 964,000 workers suffered from work-related stress, with 22.1 million working days lost as a result.

Stress, dubbed a ‘silent killer’, is notoriously difficult to detect, which makes it even more important to have the correct measures in place.

When your employees’ mental health isn’t prioritised, the detriment isn’t just to the individual, it’s to your business, too; it leads to poor productivity and absenteeism.

Peninsula’s Health & Safety experts host a free, exclusive webcast discussing the importance of managing your staff’s wellbeing:

Understanding your legal and moral requirements relating to mental health and stress as an employer.
Actionable steps to identify the signs of poor mental health and stress, and how to implement control measures.
The risk to your business’s performance and culture if you don’t have progressive protocols in place.