While many businesses have incorporated group protection policies and employee assistance programmes (EAPs) to support the mental health of their staff, further efforts are needed to communicate these available services, according to Mental Health UK.
Sudan is a worrying and extreme example of the issues that can affect an employee abroad. While it would be hoped that few employees would be caught up in this level of security risk, the recent pension reform protests in France, and electoral reform protests in Mexico, for example, show that every country carries some level of risk. Towergate Health & Protection is appealing to employers to make sure they have a strategy in place to support any and all employees abroad, wherever they are based.