STENA LINE MENTAL HEALTH SURVEY

Our ref: HSR

Head Office Circular NP/212/24

21^st August 2024

To: ALL STENA LINE MEMBERS

 

 

Dear Colleague

 

STENA LINE MENTAL HEALTH SURVEY 

 

Further to Head Office Circular NP/159/24, dated 26th June 2024, I am writing to provide you with an update on the recent mental health survey that was carried out by members of Stena Line employed in Ports and as Seafarers and has provided us with information that will be presented to your employer at the forthcoming JNCC in September.

 

The snap survey provided us with an insight to how you and your colleagues feel about mental health as a workplace issue and identified areas that require progress:

 

• the survey was completed by 252 members, of which 169 were seafarers and 83 were port workers
• 57% of those who completed the survey had been employed for Stena Line for more than 10 years
• 72% of RMT members believe that mental health awareness is an issue at Stena Line
• 98% of those who participated in the survey have not received any form of mental health training by your employer in the last 2 years
• 109 respondents identified that either they or a colleague have encountered mental health related issues whilst at work
• 82% of respondents identified that they do not have the resources to support or promote Mental health awareness in the workplace
• 39 respondents have taken time off work in the last 12 months due to mental health.

 

There were lots of individual responses to the questions laid out in the survey that gave members an ability to answer questions in their own words and within those responses is a recurring theme relating to a lack of employee numbers and associated pressures on members, a lack of training/ support measures and views on what the company could do to assist with awareness of mental health.

 

I would like to thank our members for participating in this survey and we will report back once we have met with your employer to present our findings and discuss how we address the areas identified within this survey that need improving.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Michael Lynch

General Secretary