Colin talks Stress and Mental health awareness. As part of a Mental Health First Aid England programme Colin witnessed with a client, he saw some fantastic and simple key messages to help relieve stress in yourself and others in the workplace! Colin has summarised most of this information and shared with you as he feels it is important in your business to take care of you and your colleagues mental well-being

 

Coping Strategies and self-care-tips to help protect yourself against stress. This included things to try; and things to avoid!

 

Try!

• Get Moving by doing activities like walking or sports!
• Eat well; Healthy diet, healthy mind!
• Having ‘you’ time; Setting aside time to have fun and indulge yourself (Having ‘you’ time)
• Learning a new skill; Learning a new instrument, language or maybe a trade or useful skill.
• Get Better at Sharing your feelings; its okay to ask for help& support. Don’t be frightened to help yourself.
• Switch off from distractions

Avoid!

• Overdoing it on sugar, caffeine and alcohol
• Overworking; Leave work at work, don’t take it home with you
• Don’t chase perfection; Be it in your own personal life and self image, or maybe work aspirations. Accept who you are and don’t apply excessive pressure on yourself with unrealistic expectations
• Don’t Bottle it up; make sure you don’t bottle up your feelings, positive or negative. Make sure to talk about things and don’t let your feelings build and escalate.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• mhfaengland.org

 

ABOUT HOST 

Colin Nottage 

‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’ 

This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. 

Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions. 

He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation. 

Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses. 

Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, -an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive. 

He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. 

He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)