Chairing a session at the EHS Congress, Andrew Sharman said an approach to wellbeing goes beyond analysis.
In a panel debate around frontline safety leadership, Sharman explained, “There’s a lot of talk about mental health but I’m worried we’re missing an important aspect as we strategise around it but fail to connect on a person-to-person level.”
He shared concern around asking people how they are; that the gesture today is now a hollow one and has lost impact. “We ask people how they are but we don’t understand how they’re doing. We should ask the question twice.”
The response was prompted following a question from Sue Parker Tantush, former Health and safety Director at Co-Op, who, sitting in the audience asked the panel how wellbeing is being used in their safety programmes.
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
