TRAIN drivers were told: “It’s OK not to be OK” yesterday during an address supporting mental wellbeing on the railways.
Clinical psychologist Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald, who is the lead health and wellbeing specialist with the Rail Safety and Standards Board, was speaking at the conference of train drivers’ union Aslef.
She described a project that the board is currently working on which aims to reduce the stigma of mental ill health in the rail industry and improve the recognition and management of trauma following a fatality.
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