MPA is keen to help ensure that employees are able to recognise the symptoms that are often indicators of mental health issues, understand some simple coping strategies and, most importantly, understand that there are many ways in which individuals can be provided with support.
This publication is free to download and share widely. A print ready version is also available for any company wishing to print copies via their own printers. Please contact Rhian Geary for more information.
Published: 2026
MPA has produced this concise guide to help ensure that managers, supervisors and others have the basic information that will help them to recognise behaviour that may indicate that one of their colleagues is experiencing mental health or wellbeing issues and to outline how they may be able to support them. It is designed to work in tandem with the Employee Guide.
A print ready version is also available for any company wishing to print copies via their own printers. Please contact Rhian Geary for more information.
This Guide aims to provide Clear, Simple, Smart guidance to employers and managers to help them complete a suitable and sufficient work-related stress risk assessment of their workplace.
Statistics published by Health and Safety Executive show that 0.9m workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2022/23, accounting for 17.1 million working days lost. Deloitte also reported that poor mental health, including stress, costs UK employers up to £56 billion a year.
As well as a duty of care and a moral obligation, conducting a work-related stress risk assessment is a legal requirement and HSE inspectors are increasingly asking businesses what they are doing to comply with the law to minimize the risks of work-related stress.
Published: 2025