Hours before the writing of this article I was reviewing several mails on events of “Welfare at work”. After the pandemic, a whole “Boom” of the mental Health And it is not uncommon to go to a forum or convention in which representatives of different companies tell us about the importance of organizing actions to improve well -being in organizations. However … Are meditation programs, hourly flexibility, education on how to have good food or discounts on gyms what our template really needs?
I currently have the pleasure of combining My job in Sacyr with that of the therapywhich, although I do not deny additional fatigue, also enriches my vision to what extent the well -being plans are effective. The cases they mention are increasingly frequent scarce hours of sleep next to shift jobs, Family problems after discussions with co -workers o gastric difficulties with a long history of work overload. I don’t doubt that Mindfulness sessions have certain benefits in these people, but, clearly, It is not the solution. The solution is to integrate mental health into our culture.
Understanding mental health in Sacyr
Get an organization to Commit to mental health care It is not easy and the first step is have solid foundations. In Sacyr we have of the Program ‘Sacyr Healthy’which is included in the Company Strategic Planand in which we carry out actions dedicated to caring for Four fundamental pillars: Physical health and nutrition, financial health, social health and mental health.
From the first moment, Sacyr was clear that emotional well -being could not only be conceived as a tool to maintain talent in the organization, but as an engine to take care of the staff of the staff. That is why tODO The aforementioned emotional well -being has been included in the Directorate of Safety and Health: taking care of the mental health of our workforce is our responsibility.
When we talk about this we do not want to leave it in a simple holder: Understand mental health within occupational risks It is what has currently led us to make screening test in our medical recognition y Offer advice or even psychological treatment to the most affected profiles.
In Sacyr works more than 15,000 professionals with different nationalities, cultures and realities. There is no doubt that for us it has been and is being a challenge to get the real scope of our measures to reach the whole world, so this has forced us to reconceptualize how to work with emotional well -being: Welfare we can only obtain it by bringing the mental health of our template to the maximum expression and to achieve it we must make it part of our DNA.
-Creating pillars for our mental health
We understand that these actions They must have an impact that goes beyond workalways having a transverse character in people’s lives that we work in the company and that They impact both of us and our families and friendships. We organized volunteers in which we sensitize some aspects of mental healthwe propose collaborative challenges in which we encourage different teams to participate together or simply orient those people who need it to find the best available resource to take care of them.
Objectives met
Throughout this trip we have achieved get our initiatives to more than 15 countrieswe formulate Challenges involving health care on five continents And every month Increase the requests for formations, podcasts, webinars and talks on mental health issues.
I could keep writing about the number of departments that are joined to generate initiatives related to well -being o The impact that our actions have not only on the workforce but on their familiesbut I prefer to leave our greatest achievement here:
The greatest achievement is not having a large number of attendees in our last challenge on emotional well -being. The greatest achievement is to receive the call from a team manager that tells us: “Today a partner is incorporated after a long leave, we want to take care of him, how do we do it?”.
It is this awareness about the importance of taking care of the mental health of colleagues that proud. A conscience that is expanding every day and that shows us that we are on the right path.
This tribune is part of the co -responsible dose: promotion of mental health and well -being in the workplace
