| Are your co workers at work working? Does your | | | | of us send flowers, take a meal and offer support; |
| staff work to their full potential? Or are your | | | | have you done these same gestures to an individual at |
| employees full of worry, stress, anxiety and | | | | home for depression, bipolar, or stress? Why should it |
| depression? The answer is right there in your statistics: | | | | be any different? All illnesses have the same |
| what are your numbers for absenteeism, WCIB claims, | | | | characteristics, symptoms, treatments, and hope for |
| staff turnover and sales? By recognizing workplace | | | | recovery. Even mental illness! Change the attitude, stop |
| mental health you can witness your employees | | | | the stigma, and show that you are a company that |
| working to their full potential, see your WCIB and sick | | | | cares. |
| leave decrease and your staff morale and team | | | | T: Do you offer training to all staff on identifying mental |
| functioning improve. With this proven process named | | | | illness? Do your managers know how to identify |
| P.A.T your work environment can go from sickness to | | | | mental health issues compared to laziness or |
| success. | | | | defiance? Do your employees know how to work |
| P: Build procedures and plans on managing workplace | | | | with a customer with a mental health issue? Training |
| mental health. Do you train your new employees in | | | | opens discussion which will uncover solutions to |
| WHIMMIS, First Aid and CPR? Do you offer an | | | | workplace absenteeism, accidents, mistakes, poor |
| orientation package and training session? Is mental | | | | morale and poor productivity. Training teaches tools, |
| health training part of this orientation? Usually not, and | | | | which will provide outcome to a productive, positive |
| yet 1 in 5 will experience mental illness in their lifetime | | | | and prepared workplace. |
| and this does not include the anxiety and depression | | | | P.A.T offers hopes to companies that have been |
| that we all work through or those that are not | | | | concerned about staff turnover, sales and service. |
| diagnosed due to stigma. Prepare procedures to | | | | P.A.T offers hope to those sitting at their desks |
| manage mental health in the workplace. | | | | worrying about their families, finances, and future. Take |
| A: What is your company's attitude around mental | | | | a moment to see how you manage health in the |
| illness? If you have an employee off due to a broken | | | | workplace. Speak out and stop the stigma, not only will |
| leg are they treated differently then someone away | | | | it make a difference in your statistics at work but it will |
| due to bipolar illness? When you have a friend, co | | | | also make a difference in all aspects of your life. |
| worker or employee away for a physical injury many | | | | |