Mental health at work
January 10, 2012
NINETY-five percent of
respondents to a recent SANE
Australia survey of working life and
mental illness recommended that
employers and managers receive
education on mental illness, and
how to manage its effects in the
workplace.
According to the mental health
charity, an estimated 18 million
absentee days are taken annually
due to untreated mental health
problems, with mental health
issues having recently eclipsed
physical injury as the cause of the
longest absences from work.
In response to this, SANE
Australia is encouraging employers
and managers to make use of its
new initiative, titled Mindful
Employer, to promote better
workplace mental health.
The program focuses on mental
illness awareness training and the
skills to work with, and support, an
employee who has or is caring for
someone with a mental illness.
See- www.mindfulemployer.org.
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