1. Port Skills and Safety and Mates in Mind Stephen Haynes
Head of Programme
Mates in Mind

2. Our mission
Mates in Mind is a leading UK charity that enables organisations, of any size, to improve their workforces’ mental health.

3. We create, communicate and deliver a complete approach to promoting a positive mental health environment.

5. Port Skills and Safety proudly supports Mates in Mind, helping to improve mental health across our industry.

6. What are we addressing?

7. Impact on our people 87% 300,000 / year 1/6th 3.7x above Nat avg.
Not comfortable disclosing a mental health issue at work
Time to Change, 2017
3.7x above Nat avg.
Suicide among male labourers
Office of National Statistics 2018
300,000 / year
Jobs lost due to poor mental health
Thriving at Work Report 2017
1/6th
Working age reported a mental health condition
Office of National Statistics 2001

8. Impact on business 44% 57% 15.4M £33-42 Billion
Of all work related illnesses
Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
57%
Of all working days lost
Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
15.4M
Working days lost
£33-42 Billion
Cost to UK business
Thriving at Work

11. Positive mental wellbeing Negative mental wellbeing
A person with a diagnosed disorder, that copes well
A person with no disorder, and has positive mental wellbeing
Poor
mental
health
Good mental
health
Someone with a diagnosed disorder, with poor mental wellbeing
A person with no diagnosed illness or disorder, but has poor mental health
Negative mental wellbeing
Adapted from
Mental Health First Aid England

13. Are mental health problems increasing?

15. Source: The House of Commons Library research service, 2018

16. Source: The House of Commons Library research service, 2018

17. 2/3 don’t feel there are sufficient outlets to discuss problems
95% of workers reporting absence due to stress, give a different reason
2/3 don’t feel there are sufficient outlets to discuss problems
Suicide rate = 3.7 times higher than the national average (construction)
Between 2005 and 2015, only 27% of people who died by suicide had been in contact with mental health services in the year before they died.
Sources: Time to Change, Office of National Statistics, Randstad (2017), Public Health England (2015), Samaritans (2016), Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (2017).

18. Traditional approaches

19. Legal considerations
Organisations have a legal duty to protect their employees from stress at work by undertaking a risk assessment and acting on it.
This applies at an organisational level, department/ divisional level as well as at an employee level (subject to the risks ascertained).
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999: To assess the risk of stress-related ill health arising from work activities. Under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974: To take measures to control that risk.

21. What can we do? Produce, implement and communicate a plan
Develop awareness
Encourage open conversations + promote support
Provide employees with good working conditions
Promote effective people management
Routinely monitor employee wellbeing.

23. Discussion/ Q&A
matesinmind.org