January 2020 - BlueMediation

Internal report on the RCMP’s suicide prevention programs

An internal report has just been released on the RCMP’s suicide prevention program, as a follow-up the suicide of an officer in 2016.

The report says a national study should look into the work and life factors that put members’ mental health at risk, and should find out whether members “are succumbing to mental illness for endemic reasons within the control of or further influence by the employer.”
The report also calls for a strategy to better detect symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and to improve training to teach Mounties to recognize warning signs in themselves and their colleagues.
It also recommends increased aftercare support for staff when someone in a detachment dies.
CBC

You can read the full article here: https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5401268

Burnout in the Workplace

Burnout is a major problem in the workplace that can add stress and contribute to conflicts.

Here are two interesting articles on burnout we wanted to share with you:

Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People (Harvard Business Review)
Two-Thirds Of Workers Experienced Burnout This Year: How To Reverse The Trend In 2020 (Forbes)

5 Reasons Mediation Should Be Mandatory

Despite all the work on raising awareness of the benefits of mediation, it’s a chronically under-used approach, a last resort. All organisations need to be working on a basis of trust and openness – and that means being able to have grown-up conversations, not running to formal dispute processes, blame, recriminations and tribunals. The number of employees turning to an employment tribunal went up 10% in the last year, the backlog is up 39%.
FIVE REASONS WHY MEDIATION NEEDS TO BE MANDATORY (theHRDIRECTOR)

We couldn’t agree with this article more! Click here to read the full piece: