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there's no business like no business

5/15/2018

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As well as being Mental Health Awareness Week it's also Business Continuity Week.

So what do businesses need to maintain continuity of their business:
  • electricity
  • water
  • buildings
  • access
  • communications
  • security
  • protection from hazards (fire etc)
  • a load of other things that I don't know about because I'm not writing about business continuity

​The other thing they need is people, us, the ones who work there, or are customers.
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I may be wrong (because I'm no expert in business continuity as you can tell)  but if your staff can't come to work or their work is affected due to mental health issues then I assume that's a business continuity risk. I

We have fire drills a few times a year because we understand the consequences of fire.

We have computer security and virus software because we understand the consequence of breach.

Do we do enough to ensure business continuity for when our people might not be there?

The following is a lift from the HSE website
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We have DSE assessments and chairs with 5 star bases and adjustable lumber support to help ensure that we don't get musculoskeletal disorders, but that's only the silver medal cause of days lost and risk to business continuity.

So do we do enough for mental health? Do you? Does the company you work for?

Why not make sure you have a mental health discussion every time there is a fire drill, or every time your computer installs some new virus software, or every time security challenge you for not wearing your name badge.

This needs to be talked about every day, ands to become normal, like fire drills are.

Take care

Paul
1 Comment
Steve Marks
5/15/2018 09:40:26 am

Hi Paul
Great blogs linked to the current Mental Health Awareness Week. The HSE stats confirming stress, depression and anxiety as the most likely cause for work related ill health highlights the importance for organisations to consider this as part of business continuity. The Environment Agency wellbeing ambition recognises that people are our greatest asset and we want them to “stay safe and grow”. In Cornwall, we recently signed up to the Cornwall Workplace Health Programme that provided free Mental Health First Aid Training to 31 of our staff. Our office safety procedures are now consistent for both Mental Health and Physical First Aiders to ensure we deliver the same duty of car for both physical and mental health. We want our staff to feel the same about approaching a Mental Health First Aider for a chat as they would a physical first aider for a sticky plaster. Our regular peer support sessions for our Mental Health First Aiders has already demonstrated that these have been used far more frequently than our physical first aiders, highlighting this should be considered a core health and safety at work responsibility, just like our physical first aiders.

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