10 Facts about Workplace Mental Health

1. Mental illnesses affect more people than all other diseases combined!

2. Depressive disorders are the chief cause of disability in Canada. (Business & Economic Round table on Mental Health 2000)

3. Canadian workers view job stress more prevalent than work-related injury or illness.

4. Of all Canadians requiring hospital care, nearly half do so because of mental illness.

5. Medical textbooks attribute up to 80% if all diseases to stress. (Pelletier, 1984)

6. Stress costs employers lost productivity, increased sick time and increased health benefit claims

7. Annual costs of work time lost due to stress are estimated to cost Canadian businesses $ 12 billion. (Statistics Canada, 2000)

8. 40% of Canadians reported that they did not know enough ways to improve their mental health. (Canadian Mental Health Association, 1997)

9. Canadians are not alone: job related stress has been identified by the World Health organization as a “world wide epidemic”.

10. 64% of Ontario workers felt that their employer was not effectively addressing the problem of stress. (Compas, Mental Health Survey, 1997)

You cannot afford to ignore the price of employee stress and mental health concerns undercutting your organizations wellness and client relations. Learn more about the Canadian Mental Health Association's Workplace Mental Health Promotion Program (WMHPP). To learn more contact our office at (613) 933-5845 or 1-800-493-8271.