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PAE

Why a new

approach to

workplace

mental health

is needed for

2023

Every employer has a responsibility to look common. However, there is a growing
after the health and wellbeing of their staff awareness that this is a trend that needs to be
at work. This duty often focuses on physical challenged.
safety, especially in sectors such as utilities
and logistics where manual handling and With the pandemic having reframed the
heavy machinery are involved, but it is conversation around mental health, forward-
important to also give due consideration to thinking employers in every industry are
mental health. looking for ways to introduce new and
improved measures to ensure that staff get
Mental wellbeing has not always received the support they need in 2023 and beyond.
the attention it deserves. This is particularly Here, we will explain the reasons why, while
the case in male-dominated workplaces or looking at some of the steps that businesses
among transient workforces, where talking can take.
openly about mental health is not traditionally

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