Psych Safety

Red Cross Training

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Red Cross Training is the workplace training service of the British Red Cross, set up in 1984, with its contact office at Salford Quays. Its mental health at work range has five courses: Mental Health Awareness for Managers, Stress Management and Team Resilience, Introduction to Stress at Work, Call Handling with Empathy at Work and Wellbeing Support at Work. They are aimed at managers, call handlers and wider staff. Depending on the course, they run at venues across the UK, at an employer's own site, as virtual trainer-led sessions or as self-paced e-learning. The managers' course lasts one day in person or 3.5 hours online, while Wellbeing Support at Work is a 1.5-hour online module. Prices are published and exclude VAT. Mental Health Awareness for Managers costs from £221 per learner at a venue, from £1,550 for an in-person group of 4 to 12, or £86 per learner online, and Wellbeing Support at Work costs £46 per learner. The courses are designed by Red Cross psychosocial experts and described as continuing professional development (CPD) accredited, though the accrediting body is not named. Surplus from training goes to the British Red Cross, a charity registered in England and Wales (220949), Scotland (SC037738) and the Isle of Man (0752).

Resilient People

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Resilient People Ltd is a workplace mental health training company based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. It runs Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses, a one-day course for line managers called RESPOND, Wellbeing Champions training, neurodiversity courses and two awareness courses: AWARE for all employees and THRIVE for teams in demanding roles. It also teaches Trauma Risk Management (TRiM), a peer support approach first developed in the UK Armed Forces, at practitioner, manager and refresher levels, plus a Trauma Prepared course for line managers and staff. The MHFA course takes about 14 hours, either face to face over two days or online in four live sessions, with up to 16 people per group. Courses can be run in-house or booked as open courses. Prices are not published. The website states that its MHFA training is accredited and led by an MHFA England Instructor Member, and that people who complete it are certified as Mental Health First Aiders for three years. It lists construction, housing associations, the NHS, transport and services, police and manufacturing as the sectors it works in.

Robertson Cooper

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Robertson Cooper is a workplace wellbeing consultancy in Chorley, Lancashire, founded by business psychologists Ivan Robertson and Sir Cary Cooper. It works with employers of all sizes on staff wellbeing, stress and engagement. Its Good Day at Work Assessment is an online employee survey covering stress risk factors, engagement, resilience and health, benchmarked against more than 70,000 workers and available in 21 languages, with a personal report for every employee. The six Pathways are behaviour-change programmes on stress and burnout, change and resilience, psychological safety, high-performing teams, inclusive culture and leadership development. Each has four modules, for the organisation, leaders, managers and employees, and combines workshops, masterclasses, one-to-one coaching with business psychologists and consultancy over a typical 3 to 4 months. It also offers one-off talks, wellbeing champions courses and strategy work. Prices are not published. The assessment comes as a platform licence, a project-managed option or a full service, and organisations can gain one of four levels of Good Day at Work certification. Robertson Cooper Limited was incorporated in 1997 and took its current name in 1999. The company has been part of handl Group since December 2021 and says it draws on a network of more than 100 associate business psychologists.

Samaritans

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Samaritans is a charity founded in London in 1953, with its central office in Ewell, Surrey, that runs suicide prevention training for workplaces. Its Samaritans Training and Engagement Programmes (STEP) train staff to spot and support people who are struggling to cope. Employers can book in-house one-day or half-day courses, join open courses or commission a course designed for their organisation, and it also offers eLearning, including a Supportive Listening course. For the rail industry it runs three-hour courses, online or face to face, on managing suicidal contacts and supporting colleagues after a traumatic incident. Prices for workplace courses are not published, but the rail course on managing suicidal contacts is free for Network Rail, train operators and British Transport Police. Samaritans helped develop BS 30480, the British Standards Institution (BSI) standard on suicide risk in the workplace, and states that STEP meets its requirements for training providers. More than 52,000 people have used its free Wellbeing in the Workplace online toolkit through its website. It is a registered charity in England and Wales (219432) and in Scotland (SC040604).