July 16, 2024
Heather Beach shares three takeaways from last month's conference, including effective communication. Read More
July 10, 2024
Heather Beach, Founder of The Healthy Work Company explains why organisational wellbeing, and why at this scale, makes a greater, positive impact to an individual's mental health. Read More
January 15, 2024
On the year's most miserable day (allegedly), Heather Beach says it's not surprising we're so exhausted, but embracing realistic optimism might just take the edge off. Read More
August 1, 2023
Heather Beach draws on the findings from her new book and asks why workplaces sometimes struggle to implement a workplace wellbeing strategy. Read More
April 3, 2023
SHP hears from Heather Beach, as she discusses Safety Thirst, gatherings aimed to create a local community network within health and safety. Read More
May 9, 2022
In this article, Heather Beach provides some tips on avoiding loneliness when working from home. Read More
May 25, 2021
Being a good listener can be very hard for humans. We are hard wired to want to categorise, to solve, to judge, to relate to our own experience. When presented with a problem we just want to help. Read More
May 20, 2021
One of the key recommendations from the Farmer Stevenson report “Thriving at Work” was: “Encourage open conversations about mental health and the support available when employees are struggling”. Read More
March 24, 2021
SHP and Healthy Work Company have launched a collaborative wellbeing survey, with the view to producing a whitepaper, highlighting some of the initiatives which organisations have undertaken during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as focusing on plans for the future. Read More
November 30, 2020
Heather Beach, Founder of the Health Work Company and Women in Health & Safety committee member, provides an update on the committee’s activities over the last few months and looks ahead to some upcoming events. Read More
October 5, 2020
We have recently lived through a period which is challenging everyone. Our children, our workers, our elderly. It is unlikely to get better before it gets worse, as the economic fallout hits us, and we are told that the next epidemic will be anxiety. Read More
May 20, 2020
Launched during Mental Health Awareness Week, a recent survey looks at the nation’s mental health during the coronavirus lockdown. Read More
April 16, 2020
Positive Psychology (not to be confused with positive thinking) is the scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning. It has also been defined as the study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals, communities, and organisations to thrive. Read More
March 4, 2020
Heather Beach looks at two reports, published to support your business case for organisational wellbeing – one from Deloitte and one from Robertson Cooper. Read More
November 29, 2019
In May 2019, the World Health Organization announced that in the ICD11 (international classification of mental illnesses) there would be a new category of “burnout” as an occupational phenomenon – not a medical condition. Heather Beach discusses... Read More
June 11, 2019
Do you need to be an expert to have a conversation with someone struggling with their mental health? Some say that you do. Some advocate not using peer to peer support systems because ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. Read More
May 14, 2019
Only five to ten years ago, a wellbeing strategy looked like apples in the office, yoga at lunchtime, a cycle to work scheme and gym memberships. Read More
March 14, 2019
Heather Beach and Mark Glover discuss the relationship between employee and employer when it comes to opening up and talking about mental ill health. Read More
December 5, 2018
November was a whirlwind in the world of mental health training, as Heather Beach from The Healthy Work Company explains. Read More
November 9, 2018
Heather Beach and Dr Dominic Cooper investigate the number of ex-military suicides as a result of PTSD and other mental health conditions. Read More
September 21, 2018
Heather Beach, from the Health Work Company, explores her findings on health and wellbeing in australia, following a month’s stay on the other side of the world. Read More
July 19, 2018
We put our rubbish in the bin; one day a week we put the bin out on the pavement; we may on occasion take big items to the 'tip'. Some of us campaign against the over use of plastics; ban plastic straws; worry about the ocean…. But in the main we have a confused relationship with our waste. Read More
June 12, 2018
Simon Bown is Head of Health and Safety for London Luton Airport, arguably the most mature adoption of Safety Differently exemplified in the UK. Here Simon talks to Heather Beach from The Healthy Work Company about why he believes it isn’t just safety which should be done “differently”. Read More
June 1, 2018
Heather Beach discusses how several charities are calling for a change in the law, so that it becomes a legal requirement for organisations to have mental health as well as physical first aiders. Read More
March 7, 2018
100 years ago, the greatest cause of death for young men, was war. Now it is suicide. According to the Read More
December 8, 2017
Heather Beach of the Healthy Work Company outlines her experience of Imposter Syndrome - and the importance of health and safety professionals building self confidence. Read More
November 15, 2017
It is the 10th anniversary of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) in England this week, but it is only in the last couple of years that this training has become the main game in town for organisations wishing to start a mental health programme. Heather Beech assesses the scheme. Read More
September 18, 2017
Free space for an SHP reader to gain assess to skills insight from the Healthy Work Company. Read More
July 19, 2017
Heather Beach talks about her involvement in moving forward Laing O'Rourke's controversial Safety Differently programme. Read More
June 7, 2017
Titles can be important. The fact that Michelle Rice is not a Safety Manager or Officer, but is instead a Read More
June 5, 2017
SHP’s Women in Health and Safety is now officially two years old and we have decided it is time for Read More
May 4, 2017
Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or Read More
March 2, 2017
Last year, when John Green came out and said “Safety is broken”, I was hooked. I started to spread Read More
February 1, 2017
By Heather Beach In October last year, I attended a course called “Mental Health First Aid Lite”. Run by Mental Read More
November 29, 2016
Lauren Applebey, the current commissioning editor for SHP, will be taking on the role of editor in the new year. Read More
April 1, 2016
Heather Beach explains how the term ‘innovation’ crops up a lot when people are asked what they want to see Read More
March 8, 2016
Heather Beach describes her trip to the Farringdon Crossrail site with the Women in Health and Safety group. Read More
January 5, 2016
After 32 years, SHP’s print edition has closed and, as you might expect, the final issue is somewhat of a retrospective. Read More
December 3, 2015
On 1st December, we held a small party here at UBM to say goodbye to a 32 year legacy – Read More
November 27, 2014
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October 1, 2014
Last year I attended our second Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) India exhibition and conference in Mumbai. Sadly, safety and India don’t Read More