Creating Thriving Workplaces
British Safety Council
No one should be injured or made ill through their work.
Welcome to the second edition of Pulse by British Safety Council. Each month, we’ll be bringing you key insights, resources, and updates to help you create safer, healthier workplaces.
This May, we’re focusing on Mental Health Awareness Week which celebrates the ways that communities (including workplaces!) protect our mental health.
Protecting Employee’s Mental Wellbeing: Tools and Tips to Support You
📚 Training: Empower leaders with the tools to support meaningful conversations around mental health. Mental Health: Manage the Conversation is the ideal introduction to mental health for managers.
✅ Wellbeing Audit: Assess your strategy, culture, and leadership through the lens of psychosocial risk. Find out more about how we can help you protect your employee's mental health.
📖 Latest Must-Read Blogs:
📅 Free Webinar – Register Now: Five Star Best Practice Audit Webinar Explained!
On 26 June our Head of Audit and Consultancy, Phil Pinnington CMIOSH , will take you through the audit process, the evolving standards, and the value the Five Star approach brings. Whether you're new to the audit or looking to refine your performance, this session will offer real insights into how to go beyond ticking the box — and start driving real progress.
📅 Mark your calendars: International Safety Awards Gala Dinner
Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate excellence and connect with industry leaders! Whether you’re an award winner or dedicated to advancing health, safety, environmental, and wellbeing standards, the International Safety Awards Gala Dinner offers a unique opportunity to network, exchange insights, and build meaningful connections with industry leaders. Join us for a night of celebrations on 19 June 2025 🎉
Exclusive Offer: When you book your Gala Dinner ticket, you will receive a VIP upgrade for Safety, Health & Wellbeing Live . After booking, we will send you a registration link to claim your VIP place.
Real-World Impact: Case Study
🦺 SafeSite Facilities Ltd : Discover how SafeSite Facilities Ltd has benefited from our £10,000 Keep Thriving funding award, which allowed them to explore their workforce’s wellbeing challenges, develop a wellbeing strategy and provide resources to improve worker wellbeing. Understand how SafeSite demonstrates their commitment to promoting a wellbeing culture and mindset with our help!
Celebrating Success!
🏆 Congratulations to Maria Lopez, Study Support Advisor at British Safety Council for receiving a fantastic review from a NEBOSH National General Certificate student! Maria represents everything we stand for at British Safety Council and we are incredibly lucky to have such a talented colleague and team member, well done Maria ⭐
“I have been studying for the NEBOSH General with the British Safety Council and had been struggling with the correct technique to answer the mock tests for the NG1 OBE correctly.
Huge thanks to Maria Lopez who was able to encourage me to use my knowledge and experience in conjunction with the mock scenarios to ensure full and justified answers.
These sessions were pivotal in helping me to me pass my NG1 with a great score in February 2025 and having also completed the NG2 I now hold the NEBOSH National General Certificate, something I am extremely proud of.
Thanks again Maria for all your help, I am hugely grateful for the support and encouragement you shown me to help me believe in myself to pass.”
Free Resources & Insights
▶ Past Webinar Recordings: Missed a session? Access our free webinar recordings on workplace wellbeing, mental health in the workplace, burnout and much more. Click here to view.
🎙 Podcast: Episode 6 of our 'Health and Safety Uncut' podcast is out now⭐ Listen to How Safety Culture Helps You Build a Stronger Business where our Head of Audit and Consultancy, Phil Pinnington explores what a good safety culture looks like for an organisation, and why it can help all businesses – Available on Spotify, listen here.
As part of our focus on the future of workplace wellbeing, British Safety Council brought together an expert panel to explore whether an agreed legal definition of wellbeing would help or hinder the creation of safer and healthier workplaces.
Chaired by British Safety Council’s director of audit and consultancy, Jigna Patel, this event brought together leading employers from the public, private and charitable sectors to discuss the practical benefits and challenges of an agreed legal definition.
This was followed by a discussion around the complexities of measuring both workplace and worker wellbeing, and how these both shape and are shaped by external factors, such as social, political or economic changes.
You can read more about this event here.
Tourette's Awareness Month runs from the 15 May to 15 June and provides an opportunity for employers, wider society, and policymakers to tackle the many misconceptions and misunderstandings that exist around Tourette’s, both inside and outside of the workplace.
Tourettes Action has launched their #Misunderstood campaign - a nationwide movement aimed at dismantling harmful stereotypes and highlighting the everyday realities of living with Tourettes Syndrome (TS) – which affects 300,000 people across the UK.
At the heart of this year’s awareness effort is a multimedia campaign, which features a stirring reinterpretation of Nina Simone’s “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” which stars Grace, a young woman with Tourette’s, alongside a choir of individuals also living with the condition.
The film captures the emotional weight of navigating life with TS - from explaining involuntary tics to confronting public misconceptions and unwanted stares. It builds to a moving finale where the choir joins together in a call for empathy, connection, and deeper understanding.
Ahead of Tourette’s Awareness Month, our Safety Management magazine sat down with Ione Georgakis, Therapies and Advocacy Manager, to find out more about what employers can do to make workplaces more aware and more inclusive.
Read the full interview here
Thanks for joining us for our second edition of Pulse, together we can work towards creating safer, healthier workplaces.
See you next month!
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