Support launched for workers going through the menopause

Support launched for workers going

through the menopause

 

 

Electricity employees are being offered support in the run-up to World Menopause Day (October 18) and during World Menopause Month (October).

 

UK Power Networks, the company that keeps local electricity supplies flowing across the East, South East and London, is offering a webinar and a new Employee Menopause Network for support and information. The company will have health experts giving information and answering questions at the webinar on Friday (October 16).  Working with Menopause will offer information about the perimenopause, menopause, treatment, HRT, support and tips on talking about menopause with their line manager.

 

Organiser Jean Kelly said: “The age profile of women at UK Power Networks tells us that one in two women within our organisation could be experiencing menopausal symptoms. As more employees go through the menopause during their working lives, employers need to be aware of the impact it can have on people’s lives. This is the first time we have tried a webinar on this subject to directly help our employees and promote discussion, so I am looking forward to it.”

 

One participant said: “I’m pleased the company is taking such an interest and starting on this journey to support women at work who will all experience the menopause in various forms. From those I’ve spoken to, many of them have no idea that their symptoms are related to the menopause or who they could talk to. It’s a massive subject which affects not only the woman involved but her family and often her work.”

 

 

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For further information please contact the UK Power Networks press office on 0330 159 1712.

 

 

 

Notes to editors:

UK Power Networks is the country’s biggest electricity distributor, making sure the lights stay on for more than eight million homes and businesses across London, the South East and the East of England.

 

Network operators aren’t the same as energy suppliers; network operators manage local power lines and substations, while energy suppliers sell the electricity that runs through the power lines.

 

UK Power Networks continues to be listed in the Sunday Times’ Top 25 Best Big Companies to Work For, and made industry history by becoming first company to win Utility of the Year two years running (2015 and 2016 also 2012).

 

The company invests more than £600 million in its electricity networks every year, offers extra help to vulnerable customers at times of need, and is undertaking trials to ensure that electricity networks support the transition to a low carbon future. It also moves cables and connects new electricity supplies. If you have a power cut ring 105, see www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk or tweet us @UKPowerNetworks