Welcome to the Safeti Podcast  

In this Episode, Tom Oxley from Bamboo Mental Health tells us about how his own experiences influenced him to get into the business of helping companies manage the mental health of their employees in a meaningful way.

Tom shares some of his approach to improving workplace mental health, the business case for it and also how to best spend your time and resources for greatest impact.

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'Tackling Workplace Mental Health'  - Podcast Resources

Bamboo Mental Health - find out what Tom and his team are doing about workplace mental health at the Bamboo site

Time to Change - the UK mental health charity that Tom mentioned in the podcast - some great free resources here

HSE Stress Mgmt Standards - the Health and Safety Executive standard to help you manage assess stress and mental health risk factors at work

Tackling Workplace Mental Health - Transcript Taster

Richard

Hi folks welcome to episode 9 of the safeti podcast. As ever I really appreciate you taking the time to listen in. today we have Tom Oxley on the show from bamboo mental health.

Tom is going to share his very personal story of what brought him to specialize in this area. Tom opens up and tells us how his company approaches this notoriously tough topic with businesses in a meaningful and impactful way.

He also shares with us some of the common pitfalls when implementing a mental health strategy. Tom goes on to give us some recommendations on where he thinks you should focus your time, effort and resources. Let’s do it. [Music]

Welcome to the safeti podcast with your host all the way from a small green island in the wild Atlantic Ocean, Richard Collins.

Richard

We're not going to waste any time before we get into this today as it runs a full 30 minutes. I hope you get lots of value from this conversation. I know I definitely did. Okay then let's go talk to Tom.

Tom Oxley from bamboo in mental health welcome to Safeti podcast. It’s great to have you on the show today. How you keeping?

Tom

I'm very well thank you very much. Thanks for asking how are you?

Richard

Great yeah really really good. All the better for having you on the show now. We have attempted this on more than one occasion. So it's good to finally get you on. 

Just so the audience know we've had a couple of audio attempts that have scuppered us. And of course within busy doing various things. But we're persistent as usual. We've got here hopefully everything will go according to plan today.

I'm looking forward to chatting to you about what you're doing. Yeah so could even to just kick off. Do you want to tell the audience a little bit about yourself? What has brought you to opening up a company and do what you do within the mental health scene?

Why mental health?

Tom

Of course I do mental health in the workplace and that's two thin