Healthy Minds Matter
Royal Mail Group won the ‘Mental Health Initiative of the Year’ at the Workplace Savings and Benefits Awards 2018.
The awards - which are now in their sixth year - aim to ‘find and recognise the employers which have the best benefits teams and offerings to staff and have done the most to improve these over the past 12 months.’
The Mental Health Initiative of the Year category aims to recognise the provider that has launched, or largely completed, an initiative to help employers improve their employees' mental health over the 12 months to 31 January 2018.
Royal Mail Group was praised by judges for its ‘courageous five-year mental health strategy, Because Healthy Minds Matter’.
Dr Shaun Davis, director of safety, health, wellbeing and sustainability, said: ‘This award recognises the work we have done over the last 12 months to raise the profile of mental health and signpost the support available to colleagues.
‘Since launching our five-year mental health strategy a year ago I am more convinced than ever of the importance of mental wellbeing workplace tools, support and signposting.
‘We will continue to invest in our mental health aims and work with our mental health charities and other organisations to make a difference to people’s mental wellbeing.’
Since October 2017, Royal Mail has:
- Designed and delivered multi-media campaigns such as the Everyday People video which was launched by the Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Investment team
- Included Suicide Prevention Awareness in our communications
- 9,500 managers have completed the ‘Because Healthy Minds Matter’ e-learning course, which has been adapted and added to our Feeling First Class portal for all colleagues to access
- Sent support ‘z-cards’ into all units
- Launched a mental health peer-to-peer ambassador pilot
- Set up a mental health advisory board to review our progress
- Continued to promote our 24/7 ‘First Class Support’ helpline and direct access to counselling
- 1,311 attendees have attended the Mental Health First Aid Awareness Course, which has now been extended to our 5,500 physical First Aiders.
