Popular areas for consideration for nightlife businesses might include:
- Can you look at your shift patterns and working hours to allow for more consideration for wellbeing?
- Do you have an alcohol policy for staff during working hours? Can you review this?
- What holiday and sick pay do you have in place outside of your statutory obligations? Do you include freelance or contract staff in this? Does your absence policy make special notice about mental health and wellbeing?
- What team socials will you organise?
- What training will you encourage your team to do? Do you pay staff for their time to do this?
- How are you communicating to your customers about how to behave in your venue, or more specifically, the behaviours which will not be tolerated, such as harassment towards staff.
- Are you connecting with the wider community? Perhaps giving your space for free to a local charity? Does your team get to contribute to how you do this?
- Are you celebrating success? Do you give staff time to take a moment and enjoy the environment around them? These moments are often why you got into your job in the first place!
- Consider how your pay and conditions for staff potentially relate to their mental health and wellbeing. Are they clear, and are there changes you could make to improve or amend those terms and conditions to support the mental health and wellbeing of staff? Could you do more to facilitate ongoing engagement and discussions with your staff?’
