British Safety Council announces workplace wellbeing support

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British Safety Council has announced that it is offering any organisation employing up to 500 staff the chance to get free support to improve the wellbeing of their workplace.

Through its campaign on workplace wellbeing, Keep Thriving, the health, safety and wellbeing charity is inviting SMEs and micro-sized employers to apply to attend one of a series of free 3-hour workshops to help them develop a wellbeing strategy.

Any employer with to up to 500 staff can apply here. Applications are currently open until 30 November.

The sessions will be delivered by experts from British Safety Council’s Being Well Together programme and will help employers explore why wellbeing matters to them, their people and their business, and ways they can improve their wellbeing. The session aims to help small, medium, and micro-sized employers to develop a strategy which works and to track and evaluate their progress.

On launching the offer, Peter McGettrick, Chairman of British Safety Council, said: “We’ve been seeing more and more pressures piling onto businesses, especially smaller ones, both following the Covid pandemic and with the rising cost of energy, and as a charity we want to do something to help. That’s why we are offering SMEs and micro-sized employers the chance to improve the wellbeing of their staff, completely free of charge.

“Employers will be able to meet other like-minded organisations to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and best ways of developing a wellbeing strategy and find out how improving wellbeing boosts their organisational performance and reduces the likelihood of accidents and ill-health among their staff. This is a great chance to take a fresh look at how you, your staff and your business can succeed and thrive together.”

British Safety Council is also offering all employers who attend the opportunity to apply for a cash award to fund activity they decide to do as a result, with plans to make up to £10,000 available to one or more organisations.

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