Health and wellbeing

This month we’re joined by Tracy Orlandi, who is Head of Wellbeing and Occupational Health at East Midlands Railway. She talks about the progress being made in rail employee health and wellbeing, areas where gaps remain, and what it’ll take to elevate health to the same level as safety in the rail industry.

In this first of a series on specific health conditions, Tavid Dobson talks about his experience of dealing with prostate cancer.

Covid-19 is still with us, adding to the range of winter illnesses that can affect us. So what can we do to stay as healthy as possible in the coming weeks and months?

Not just a certificate for the wall, but a seven step guide for how to support your employees and colleagues towards better mental health.

First published in the At the Front Line series, in this episode we look at the continuing work being done by Samaritans, and talk with a Network Rail project manager who has first-hand experience of small talk and how it saved his life.

In this episode we look at the work Samaritans does over the Christmas period, and talk with a trainee Shunt Driver at Freightliner about why and what she has done to support Samaritans.

This episode looks at how the RSSB Horizon Scanning programme has identified issues and helped companies make the best possible decisions around the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With a vaccination programme well under way, Claire Shooter talks about the support that has been delivered, and how to deal with the uncertainty of the future.

This episode looks at the rail industry partnership with Samaritans', and at the Managing Suicidal Contacts training programme. And one front line customer experience manager tells us about how the training gave him the confidence to intervene.  Then he tells a story about just one of the 29 live-saving interventions he has made. Helping to deliver a better, safer railway.

Joana Faustino, Work Psychologist at RSSB, talks about the feelings we might be experiencing and some coping strategies for the pressures that we are facing.