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Workplace Culture & Wellbeing Conference

Monday 11 July 2022

Putting the spark back into workplace culture – New Workplace Culture & Wellbeing Conference launched.

 

Early Bird tickets released for Firecracker’s ‘Workplace Culture & Wellbeing Conference’. A paramount event taking place this October in Lincoln, designed to introduce what workplace culture needs to look like in a post-COVID working environment.

 

Not a week seems to go by without wellbeing and mental health entering the headlines, and a research study conducted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recorded that there were a staggering 1.6 million work-related illnesses in a 12-month period between 2019 and 2020, with 51% of those related to stress, depression, or anxiety.

 

That figure has sadly increased substantially throughout the pandemic with 822 thousand people in the UK reporting to suffer from ill-health due to work-related stress, depression, or anxiety, and job satisfaction during COVID-19 and employer support for mental health much worse.

 

Bringing the energy back into Workplace Culture is Firecracker’s founder and qualified, business coach and nutritionist, Rachel Linstead. With 15 years of professional experience, Rachel has observed first-hand how healthy and happy people turn into productive people and an efficient workforce.

 

This autumn businesses across the East Midlands and beyond are invited to join the new ‘Workplace Culture & Wellbeing Conference’ taking place on October 11 at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln.

 

The debut event, previously named Lincolnshire Workplace and Wellbeing Conference and that took place in Spring 2019 was a huge success with speakers from local businesses sharing their success, confirming the importance of culture.

 

The conference was delivered online in 2020 supporting businesses during the lockdown environment, and after a one-year hiatus, the face-to-face event is back with a difference – focusing on the culture within a workplace as its direct link to wellbeing and mental health.

 

“Wellbeing is everybody’s responsibility, and the health and wellbeing of our people have never been more important, but it all starts with culture.” Said Rachel.

 

“In the post-Covid world, the environment in which we expect our employees to work needs to be different, not a wellbeing ‘tick box’ exercise.  The evidence clearly shows that those companies who do look after their staff’s wellbeing inside and out of the office, have great business success and see a clear return on investment too.

 

“We’ll be stripping back what workplace culture is and having a relaxed style discussion with experts and innovators throughout the event, plus giving you practical tools that businesses of any size and in any industry can take away and start implementing immediately.”

 

Through a series of inclusive thinking and interactive presentations with a mix of mental health, wellbeing and workplace culture experts and pioneering business leaders the one-day conference will shine a light on organisations that have designed innovative ways to keep their culture and employees happy, inside, and out of the office.

 

This year’s conference, sponsored by and hosted at Bishop Grosseteste University, will cover topics that reflect the current working environment of flexible and hybrid teams and give participants the tools to understand how best to navigate positive workplace wellbeing and culture.

 

Firecracker has lined up the event with a mix of speakers, who will be encouraging delegates to take time out and explore some of the many ways they can take the steps to ensure their organisation has a positive workplace culture and a happy, healthy workforce.

 

The full list of speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

 

There will also be refreshment breaks, networking, and the opportunity to speak to exhibitors who specialise in workplace health, wellbeing services and creating a happy workplace culture.

 

Early bird tickets have been released today and are available to book online at £95, plus VAT. Those interested in attending are recommended to book early to benefit from the limited discount.

 

Full-price tickets will be available to purchase, subject to availability, up until the event takes place in October this year.

 

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Notes to editor

 

For media enquiries, photographs and interviews please contact Rachel Linstead on Rachel@firecracker-uk.com or call 07710 520034.

 

Interested exhibitors and sponsors that have a passion for, own a business that supports and are practising excellent workplace culture and mental health and wellbeing should contact Rachel directly before the end of July. 

 

Event details:

Tuesday 11th October 2022, 8am – 4pm

Bishop Grosseteste University, Longsdale Road, Lincoln, LN1 3DY

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About Firecracker

 

Firecracker is all about sparking energy in business. We all spend a lot of our lives working, and Firecracker’s brief is that this time is to be enjoyed not endured. Firecracker works with organisations to become strong and resilient by creating a happy and healthy workforce.

 

Founder Rachel Linstead has been working with organisations for over 15 years to help them see the value in creating happy and healthy employees. Rachel is a fully qualified nutritionist and business coach and, through her career, has seen the impact of workplace culture on employees first-hand.

 

Rachel is on a mission to ensure that the workplace is a place where people thrive both physically and mentally. Her down-to-earth and practical approach to teaching businesses about creating a content workplace culture that prioritises all staff members’ health and wellbeing means she leaves a positive legacy with everyone she works with.

 

 

Labour Force Survey (LFS) & The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

 

The LFS is a national survey run by the Office for National Statistics of currently around 37,000 households each quarter. HSE commissions annual questions in the LFS to gain a view of self-reported work-related illness and workplace injury based on individuals’ perceptions. The analysis and interpretation of these data are the sole responsibility of HSE.

 

  • 1.7 million workers suffering from work-related ill health (new or long-standing) in 2020/21
  • 822,000 workers suffering work-related stress, depression, or anxiety (new or long-standing) in 2020/2021
  • In recent years prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the rate of self-reported work-related ill health had been broadly flat.
  • In 2020/21 the rate was higher than the 2018/19 pre-coronavirus levels.
  • Of the 822,000 workers suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2020/21 an estimated 449,000 reported that this was caused or made worse by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic
  • The main work factors cited by respondents as causing work-related stress, depression or anxiety were workload pressures, including tight deadlines and too much responsibility and a lack of managerial support (2009/10-2011/12).
  • These estimates of the number of workers who suffered work-related stress, depression or anxiety as a result of the coronavirus pandemic should not be subtracted from the overall estimate of work-related stress, depression or anxiety. It cannot be assumed that those individuals would not have otherwise suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in the absence of coronavirus.

 

 

Contributing factors to poor mental health and wellbeing at work can all be underpinned by negative workplace cultures. Workload, lack of support, violence, threats or bullying and changes at work were estimated to be the main causes prior to the pandemic, with the added pressures and effects of remote working and the virus itself being major contributors to the increase.

 

Work-related stress is defined as a harmful reaction that people have to undue pressures and demands placed on them at work. But its very nature, stress is difficult to measure, HSE’s preferred data source for calculating rates and estimates for work-related stress, depression or anxiety are self-reports from the Labour Force Survey (LFS).

 

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DISTRIBUTED BY JESSICA CHAMBERS, DIGITAL MARKETING CONSULTANT

ON BEHALF OF RACHEL LINSTEAD, FOUNDER & CHEIF ENERGY SPARKER AT FIRECRACKER LTD

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