Costain is offering counselling for employees in their supply chain as part of its drive to improve health and well-being.

The Employee Assistance Programme is available for anyone in the business or supply chain experiencing worry, stress or anxiety caused by health, family, work, legal or other issues.

The move is part of Costain's plan to be a leader in improving the health and well-being of its workforce. The programme offers confidential advice to employees via a free 24/7 helpline. It also provides additional emotional support through telephone or face-to-face counselling sessions.

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Gavin Bye, Costain Group SHE Director, explained: "Costain has long been an industry leader on employee health and well-being issues and a natural next step was to extend our Employee Assistance Programme to our supply chain. We hope our decision will see other organisations across the industry following suit.

"We all experience many challenges throughout our lives which can lead to worry and stress so we felt help and support should be offered to our entire workforce, not just our own staff. Our Employee Assistance programme provides a superb confidential service to help us all through the difficult times that we can face in our lives."

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