We believe that the mental health and well-being of employees is the most important thing for the prosperity and sustainability of any company’s business, but also for the sustainability of society as such. That is why our company has long strived to improve the mental health of people, whether through the activities we support as part of our corporate social responsibility or through long-term projects in which we actively participate.

Intervention options for employees exposed to difficult communication with clients in the public administration, with a focus on Employment Offices

In 2021, we participated in a large-scale project of the Research Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the State Institute of Health on the topic of intervention measures for employees exposed to difficult communication with clients in public administration, with a focus on labour offices. Within the project, our company undertook the development of interventions to increase the resilience of employees of the Labour Office of the Czech Republic. On the basis of an extensive questionnaire survey, we prepared a series of measures that were universally applied in 2023 through training of the employees of the Labour Office and the creation of an e-learning portal in cooperation with the Research Institute of Occupational Safety.

#coronahelp

Following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, our company focused on developing specific intervention tools to support the mental health of people suffering from the adverse effects of the pandemic, such as social isolation, increased uncertainty about chaotic government measures and the economic situation, or problems caused by working from home or homeschooling. As a result, we applied specific training and tools in collaboration with selected clients.

As part of the project, we also participated in the 87th Consultation Day of the National Institute of Public Health and the Czech Medical Chamber on Health Promotion in the Workplace, with the subtitle Caring for Employee Health in Times of Unexpected Situations.

Psychosocial risks for employees with disabilities

In 2019, we collaborated with the State Institute of Health on a project to identify psychosocial risks among employees with health disability. As part of the project, we prepared a comprehensive publication summarising individual psychosocial risks, the working environment and work stress specific to people with disabilities.

Psychosocial risks in the health and social services sector

Workers in the health and social services sector are exposed to a number of challenging situations and risk factors over a long period of time. In cooperation with the National Institute of Public Health, we have therefore prepared recommended procedures for the prevention of psychosocial risks, which have become part of a brochure published by the National Institute of Public Health and the Czech Medical Chamber. We have also trained key staff of the Centre for Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Medicine of the National Institute of Public Health and key staff of selected social institutions from all over the Czech Republic. As part of the project, we also participated in the 73rd consultation day of the National Institute of Public Health and the Czech Medical Chamber on the topic of job satisfaction today. The project ran in 2017 and 2018.