Stats

• 700,000 deaths by suicide globally every year (Source: WHO)

• 14 million suicide attempts globally every year (Source: WHO)

• 6,000+ deaths by suicide in the UK every year

• Acute mental health conditions account for over 55% of all lost working days annually in the UK (excluding personnel who don’t admit actual cause due to continuing stigma)

• 17 million working days lost annually in the UK at a cost of £56 billion to businesses

Commit

• To remove and eradicate the stigma around mental health in the workplace

• Increase awareness of suicide

• Improve and do your best to save lives

• Make suicide awareness, support and prevention a workplace priority

result

• Create a psychologically safer workplace 

• Your personnel will feel more valued, be happier, more productive and more fulfilled

• Absenteeism due to poor mental health will reduce

• Cost to business of poor mental health will decrease

• Improved workplace culture

• Showcases your organisation’s compassion towards personnel and customers/clients