Event: Establishing a Mentally Healthy Workplace During and Post-Covid 19 Online Conference

Date: Tuesday 23rd June 2020

Time: 1400 – 1730

Location: Online

Website: https://bfi.co.uk/establishing-a-mentally-healthy-workplace-covid-19/

Organisers: Business Forums International Ltd.

Cost per attendee: £195 + VAT

(Special 25% discount available to the NHS – email registrations@bfi.co.uk from an NHS email address, and BFI will send you the code for you to register with.)

10% discount for CWH network using this code on BFI’s website: CWH10

Pre-Covid, establishing a mentally healthy workplace was already high on the boardroom agenda. How much more so now, with the almost endless list of stress and worry that this pandemic has brought to all.

A comprehensive virtual half-day interactive conference that combines the necessary medical, HR, risk mitigation, legal and operational elements into a robust management plan. In-depth expert presentations feature dedicated sessions to address delegate questions, challenges, and concerns. Full resources, including downloads, handouts and reference material will be provided.

Hear expert advice and case studies from: Acas, Eversheds Sutherland LLP, Strategic Wellbeing, Ipsos MORI and Conduit Associates

REGISTER:

Online –  https://bfi.co.uk/establishing-a-mentally-healthy-workplace-covid-19/ 

Phone – call 01983 861133

Email – registrations@bfi.co.uk

Full agenda below –

14:00 Welcome and introduction

Elizabeth Smith, Director of Research, Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)

14:05 LEGAL OBLIGATIONS: WHAT EMPLOYERS MUST CONSIDER FOR A RETURN TO WORK

• New directives and obligations
• Equality Act 2010
• Disability discrimination review
• Relevant H&S legislation
• Policy changes
• Communicating those to the workforce

Eversheds Sutherland

14:30 POLICY AND PRACTICE UPDATE

• Managing metal health disclosures
• Understanding the new pressures on your workforce
• Raising awareness of the signs: anxiety & stress, bereavement, substance misuse, DV
• How to respond: ongoing support measures
• Managing concerns and fears

Acas

15:00 Q&A session

15:15 Virtual tea break and delegate networking session

Don’t miss the chance to have a virtual cuppa with your fellow delegates. We will provide a networking room with interactive functions and the option to see and hear your peers. Swap war stories, examine possible solutions to the challenges you’re facing as employers or join the ‘what I wish I’d known’ debate.

Alternatively, take a break and have some fresh air, tutor the kids in maths or meditate for 30 minutes

15:45 UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON YOUR WORKFORCE: RISK MITIGATION FOR A HEALTHY RETURN

Understanding where obvious and hidden risks come from

• Ensuring your messages are appropriate and clear: tone, facts and evidence
• Practical strategies for managing traumatised staff: what employers can reasonably do
• Lessons learned so far from lockdown

Sheena Thomson, Founder and Director, Conduit Associates

16:15 CASE STUDY: MANAGING A SAFE AND FAIR RETURN TO WORK: THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS

• Identifying those who need help: effective communication and monitoring strategies during furlough
• Remote working challenges: what do we need to look out for?
• Specific Covid-related issues and potential
• Returning to work: who needs to come back when, why and how
• Extraordinary communication strategies: our story

Claire Timmins, HR Director, UK&I, Ipsos MORI

16:45 PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR A SAFE AND INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE

• Team re-integration
• Work-life balance
• Supportive employer strategies: innovation to learn from
• Effective communication

Mark Hashimi MSc MBACP UKCP CTA, Director, Strategic Wellbeing

17:30 End of conference

Building a Mentally Healthy Workplace Conference

Thursday 23 April 2020

Danubius Hotel Regents Park, London, NW8 7JT

9am – 5pm

Supporting employees mental health, through traditional and alternative strategies, ought to be a priority for UK employers.

Untackled, poor workplace mental health can lead to reduced work quality, low motivation, and conflict between employees. The current challenging recruitment and retention climate mean employee wellbeing is a key to successful businesses.

This crucial conference, hosted by Business Forums International, will show employers potential stress and mental health triggers and how to be proactive in talking to employees; early symptom recognition can ensure effective support strategies are put in place early.

Smart employers are making sure they know about and understand the latest alternative strategies for support, diagnosis and treatment. Make sure you’re among them.

This important day will cover:

• Quantifying the potential cost to your business of not engaging in a complete mental health strategy: financial, reputational and moral
• Recognising and understanding common symptoms and the range of treatment options that successful companies are employing
• Developing and implementing a robust mental health policy that will reduce absences and tackle the stigma of mental illness
• Get to grips with your legal obligations including dismissal, discrimination, absence and mental capacity
• Hear from leading organisations what works in their own companies

Hear from strategic case studies and get the latest legal advice with session from:

Deloitte, Shoosmiths, Acas, Strategic Wellbeing, Environment Agency, BT and Lendlease

Endorsed by:

The Council for Work and Health; SOM (The Society of Occupational Medicine); Mindful Employer

REGISTER HERE: www.bfi.co.uk/building-a-mentally-healthy-workplace-conference/

SAVE £100 with the Council for Work and Health member discount code –CWH100

01983 861133

info@bfi.co.uk

www.bfi.co.uk

The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors are holding an event on medical packaging and labelling on 23 October 2019.

The day includes talks and workshops about unsafe pharmaceutical packaging, and look-alike labelling. CIEHF hope that the people attending this event will be able to examine the next steps required to ensure labelling is more consistent in the future. So, it’s a day of discussion and forward planning – not just sitting and listening. CIEHF are looking for participants within healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry and patient communities to work together to identify the issues and then put forward recommendations.

Please see the flyer below for registration details:

Medical Packaging flyer

The RCN and SOM are holding a joint occupational health nursing conference and exhibition on 29 November 2019.

For further details please see the attached Occupational Health 2019 flyer