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FREE Seminar: Health & Safety Responsibilities for SMEs
WHAT The award-winning team at People Matters HR delivered their third FREE seminar of the year on 30th April 2019 at Bury GC, Gigg Lane. This seminar focussed on the Health & Safety responsibilities for SMEs. It was ideal for anyone who wants to better understand...
First Steps Towards Health and Safety in the Workplace
Running a business can be hard enough. All without having to factor in all the necessary health and safety workplace steps you have to take to ensure you, your staff and any customers or visitors are protected. However, health and safety doesn't have to go hand in...
Mental Health Myths in the Workplace
We've been discussing mental health in the workplace frequently, but do we truly understand its meaning? Everyone experiences mental health, similar to physical health. It varies; sometimes it's good, sometimes less so. When it declines, issues start to...
Common Causes of Work-Based Stress
For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about how to spot the signs of stress, as well as offering a number of top tips for how to manage stress. However, to date we’ve only been talking about stress in general terms – what happens when you are suffering from...
Free Seminar: Mental Health in the Workplace
WHAT The award-winning team at People Matters HR delivered their third FREE seminar of the year on 30th April 2019 at Bury GC, Gigg Lane. This Health and Safety Bury seminar focused on the health & safety responsibilities of SMEs. It was ideal for anyone who...
Top tips for managing stress (Part 2)
We last gave you three top tips for stress management (having a massage, exercise or doing breathing exercises). Now we want to give you some more of our top tips for managing stress, as there are so many fantastic options to consider. A balanced diet Come on, you...
Top tips for managing stress (Part 1)
Earlier this month we were talking about how to spot the signs of stress. Of course, this is vitally important – if you can’t recognise that you’re suffering from stress, you have no chance of doing anything about it. However, would you know what to do to help...
Spotting workplace stress signals
It’s February and there’s a good chance a lot of us are feeling a touch stressed out at the moment. It’s not always the easiest of months – Christmas may be behind us, but the associated financial problems aren’t necessarily. Then there’s the weather (or are we...
New Year, New Look for People Matters
We’ve all heard of the seven-year itch. You might even have watched the film. Perhaps you subscribe to the belief that after seven years many couples become bored of each other. The monotony of every day life gets them down. It's when the honeymoon period is well and...
Starting the conversation about mental health in the workplace
The charity Mind has conducted research that shows, without any doubt, that a culture of fear (and ultimately silence) around mental health is costly to employers. For example, employees were asked how work-based stress had impacted on the lives of employees. 21%...