Safety first: mental and emotional safety!!
Workplace safety has become paramount for government, corporates, families and individuals. Investment on training, equipment, and work process to ensure physical safety at work is commendable. Every company and employee wants to ensure that he, she or his colleagues reaches ‘reaches home safely just as he have arrived at work’. Do employers and employees think seriously about emotional and mental safety? Emotional and mental safety at often passé or completely ignored though emotional and mental stress is the biggest contributor to physical safety. Companies and employees often forget that safety is not only about creating a physically safe environment but also about mental and emotional well being of the employee and the people working for the organisation! Emotional and mental challenges are subtly created (and difficult to prove) at the work place via humiliation, blackmailing, lack of respect, verbal abuse, and exclusion from meet...
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