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Industry leading
Case Study 9
Safe to speak up
Our London-based gas colleagues at Morrison Energy Services are engaged
in outstanding work to help improve the mental health of colleagues through
their Safe to Speak Up (S2SU) programme.
The S2SU initiative is helping our colleagues to break the silence about mental health,
offering confidential and meaningful support to colleagues coping with emotional upset.
The original idea came from a group of colleagues on the London CMO contract, who
were concerned that some people were coping with personal stress that they didn’t feel
comfortable talking about. They realised there could be some of the workforce who needed
to be given the opportunity to share what was on their minds in a supportive environment.
S2SU provides a safety valve function of monthly calls to discuss anonymous questions
and comments in a supportive and confidential environment. The initiative enables every
member of the team to ask questions or make comments anonymously, using the Slido
conferencing facility.
Topics of discussion since the first meeting have included deeply personal issues such as
suicide, menopause awareness, cancer and other significant illness, to more routine problems
such as concerns about items mentioned in the news to
difficulty with IT systems.
Around 60 colleagues join the S2SU call every
month, around a fifth of our workforce.
We expect our reach is significantly wider, with
at least half of our people making time
for at least one call in a six month period.
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