What I can do as an Employer
Learn what you can do to kickstart your organisation journey or advance further as a progressive employer
Step 1: Understand the situation
• Use iWorkHealth, a free online survey tool to help you find out your workforce’s overall state of mental well-being, and key workplace stressors affecting your employees’ mental well-being.Step 2: Equip your team with knowledge and skills
• Organise talks or workshops to raise awareness. The Total WSH Programme offers free mental well-being workshops to help your employees know more about mental health issues, providing support one another, and reducing or managing stress better.• Send them for more in-depth training and courses to build specific skills such as mental health first aid.
Step 3: Review benefits, policies, processes
• Check out the list of recommendations to focus on reducing work stressors identified from the iWorkHealth report.• Read the Tripartite Advisory on Mental Well-being at Workplaces to find out how mental well-being can be better supported by initiatives for organisations, teams or individuals.
• Get inspiration and actionable guidance on implementing workplace initiatives from A Playbook on Workplace Mental Well-being. This guide includes tips from HR practitioners who have successfully rolled out initiatives in their own workplaces.
• Engage Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Service Providers to provide employees with a safe and anonymous channel to seek help from.