I refer to the editorial ‘A more positive workplace health concept’ that appeared on September 5.

Richmond Foundation would like to express its satisfaction that such important topics as employees’ well-being are being regularly featured in the media.

During one of our recently -concluded projects, themed ‘Healthy mind for healthy business ESF 3.193’, it was identified that 79.2 per cent of businesses that were interviewed in a research study believe that mental health problems are common in our society.

Up to 13.6 per cent of the businesses said that, over the past two years, a person at work experienced some kind of mental health problems.

Depression was the most common mental health problem encountered, accounting for up to 54.7 per cent of the responses. Stress follows with 46.3 per cent and anxiety issues with 23.2 per cent.

The research showed that the majority of businesses believe that creating more awareness can improve mental well-being at the workplace.

Targeted training may help to address stress due to workload.

As a conclusion of the ‘Healthy mind for healthy business ESF 3.193’ project, Richmond Foundation put forward recommendations to the business community to adopt mental health policies and to provide support and training to their employees.