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Shaun Davis : Royal Mail-Mental Health and covid

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https://www.iod.com/news/news/articles/ ... tal-health

Shaun Davis is Global Director of Compliance & Sustainability (Safety, Health, Wellbeing, Corporate Security and Regulatory Compliance) at Royal Mail and co-author of ‘Positive male mind’. He believes that mental health support should be integrated into an organisation’s health and safety policy.

“A positive approach to the mental health of your workers should be part of any responsible business. You can’t say you’re a sustainable, ethical organisation if you’re not looking after your people.

At Royal Mail, we’ve been committed to mental health for many years and we recognise the link between positive mental, physical and financial health. We have measures in place to support our staff mental health and wellbeing, so when Covid-19 struck, we were able to respond from a position of knowledge.

We knew that communications would be key to reassuring people during such uncertain times so we ensured our messages and our methods of communication were appropriate to all our different audiences in terms of age groups, demographics and cultures. It was time to be responsive and creative and to tailor our approach to the needs of employees, so we pivoted to more mobile communications like texts, WhatsApp and phone calls as well as using more traditional internal comms tools like intranet and email. We immediately set up a Coronavirus Helpline for staff, produced a Q&A document for managers to talk to employees about the situation and arranged access to essential information from personal technology.

The most common mental health challenge experienced by our staff was anxiety, largely created by the uncertainty and the sense of isolation caused by the lockdown. Without their usual access to friends, family and their colleagues, staff felt unanchored. Managers were very worried about keeping their staff safe, but had the benefit of working from home, while delivery people had difference concerns about being out on the ‘frontline’, particularly during the first wave of the pandemic.

Although we couldn’t provide answers to this uncertainly, we could call it out and we did our best to inform and reassure people with information which was evidence-based and which didn’t allow myths to take hold.

I think the pandemic has broken down the barriers between home life and work life and showed us that you don’t come to work as one person and go home as someone else. As a consequence, we are much less likely to see someone just as their job title; we see each other for who we really are and this can strengthen relationships and diffuse tensions.

Moving forward, I would like to see mental health become far more integrated into an organisation’s health and safety programme and included at all stages of decision making, such as recruitment, appraisals and career development. The Institute of Directors has a very loud voice which it can use to set the agenda around mental health in business. It would be good to see the IoD show the way by integrating mental health into existing IoD Director training and development programmes, rather treating mental health as a separate subject.
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They’re really taking the Micheal now aren’t they.
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Hey Shaun

How about telling Super Si that suggesting that Mental Health issues such as stress can be dealt with by phoning a helpline is both extremely ignorant of the issues, and insulting to those who suffer from it. One level short of "pull yourself together", shameful.
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It's not just covid causing me anxiety and stress it's the constant pressure to do more - e.g. absorption, a rural delivery with an additional 166 houses on it - nothing's been done to make it achievable - the post person just has to absorb all this extra work. What a load of old bollocks these clowns come out with.
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noggin1969 wrote:
02 Oct 2021, 22:37
Seems strange he's so caring, they usually can't wait to shove you out the door if you have any issues. The cheaper, the better for RM.
Shaun is out of the door he handed his notice in last week!

What a sorry state of affair when a Mental Health Advocate Quits.
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From a DOM on Workplace, not fake, an actual DOM!...

It’s amazing when you mention issues with mental health. You get all sorts of messages from higher management and then nothing. It’s as though they do their bit to be seen as doing what’s required but no one will take up the baton to check up. Out of sight out of mind. I was bullied out of my role and let’s be honest no one cares or wants to deal with the bully as he is senior . Talk is cheap actions speak louder so at the mo it’s silent
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Pretty much what I was thinking about that article above. It smacks of buzzwords and corporate jargon, designed to look good on paper, and to appeal to the leaders of our industries - "we pivoted".
Bye Shaun. :wave I'm sure you'll be a great success in your new role.
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Where can 1 view this Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy?
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The Goats Toe wrote:
08 Jun 2022, 20:00
Where can 1 view this Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy?
https://www.myroyalmail.com/support
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