Manufacturing
Pressure in Manufacturing Sector:
Manufacturing workers go through a unique combination of pressures that can contribute to high levels of stress, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Unlike physical issues the workers face, like e.g. fever or breaking a limb, Mental health issues are largely invisible and often go unaddressed in the industrial workplace.
Issues & Causes:
Mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse can seriously impact employees’ function within their industrial environment. Their work is judged based on productivity, efficiency, and output which require them to work for long hours with shift-based schedules that allow little, if any, time for flexibility or recovery. These jobs tend to be physically demanding, repetitive, and even dangerous.
Repetitive work that people perform in large volumes, even if uncomplicated, can contribute to mental health issues. It may result in boredom, stress, and physical issues. Furthermore, excessive noise, lack of sufficient daylight, and lack of opportunity for social interaction can also add to industrial workplace anxiety.
Offering Support:
There are many initiatives that companies can launch to reach out to, engage with, and support their employees. Employees who feel valued by their company feel more engaged with the company and are most likely to stick around in the same company. To prioritize employees’ mental health, the company needs to recognize their efforts, ask them for feedback, and celebrate their achievements, etc. Small daily assurance can transform an individual workplace culture dramatically.
Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs):
Companies can provide employees with EAPs. They can be designed to help the employees with various stressors in their lives, including professional concern, personal relationship challenges, and financial worries. EAPs offer services such as short-term, solution-focused counselling.
Counselling:
Counselling helps each employee to share and look at his problems from a new perspective, help himself, and to face and deal with the problems in a better way. It reduces absenteeism and may prevent termination from the employer or resignation from the employee, thus reducing the cost of hiring new employees and training them. It increases the possibility of smooth coordination between the employer and the employee. To help improve employees’ mental health, in addition to Counselling sessions from time to time, companies should implement day-to-day solutions, ensuring that there is time for rest and renewal, like work rotation, access to therapy when needed, and breaks away from the work environment, if possible. The Company has to make sure that the employees understand their role in the overall process of what the company accomplishes.
Role of Element H in this industry
- Counselling service workshops based on work–life balance, stress management, marital issues, tobacco dependence problem are offered.
- Workshops on Career counselling, leadership conflict resolution, interpersonal communication, time management, grief & loss, coping with change, building resilience are also offered.
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