Real help for manufacturers

By investing in your employees, you can mitigate your risks and reduce your costs while helping to ensure a healthier, happier and more productive workforce. Redefine your workplace, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock real health and wellbeing for your employees with our sister company, Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) in your corner. 

Health and benefits

• Employee benefits and strategy design
• Benefit engagement and communications
• Benefits technology and digital solutions
• Private medical insurance for individuals

Investment and retirement

• Pension plans
• Fiduciary management

Workforce and careers

• Salary benchmarking
• Employee communication
• Workforce rewards
• Talent strategy
• HR transformation

Explore Mercer's insights and thought leadership on global events, trends and policies affecting today's organisations — from regulatory changes to innovative strategies for health, wealth and career.

More than a third of manufacturing companies in the UK have seen an employee move on because their mental wellbeing wasn’t being looked after, with nearly a quarter losing a key member of their workforce.¹ Put yourself in a better position to support your employees with:

Mental health first aider training

Working with our colleagues in Marsh, we're able to offer a variety of mental health and wellbeing solutions for your business. Download the value proposition.

Guides

• Mental health and employment law myth busters

Thought leadership

• The effects of COVID-19 on workforce wellbeing
• Top tips for preventing employee burnout

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Support your employees physical health and prepare your leaders to manage and engage remote workers with:

Thought leadership

• Hybrid workplace considerations for managers
• Leading a virtual workforce

Running your business while simultaneously keeping on top of your Health and Safety obligations can be tough. Keep your business, employees, clients and customers safe with:

Health and safety training

Working with the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), we are able to offer:

• IOSH managing safely course
• IOSH managing safely refresher course
• IOSH working safely course 

Thought leadership

• Keeping health and safety management systems up to date in manufacturing
• How safe is your workplace?

Guides

• Health and safety site checklist for manufacturers
• Five most common health and safety mistakes
• Fire safety checklist

Manufacturing topped the list of the most attacked sectors in the UK, accounting for almost one third of all cyber-attacks directed at UK organisations.¹ Combat cyber-criminal activity with:

Cyber resources

• How to spot a phishing email test
• Cyber security glossary
• Cyber resilience: 12 key controls to strengthen your security

Thought leadership

• What to do if your business is hacked
• Common data security breaches caused by employees
• How manufacturers can combat cybersecurity threats
• The growing use of automation in manufacturing
• Avoid being tricked by deepfake technology
• Ransomware - what it means to your business and the steps you need to take to protect yourself

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80% of UK manufacturers report struggling to find the right experience/expertise.¹ Attract and recruit the right person with:

Thought leadership

• How to attract and retain the best talent during a skills shortage

Guides

• Recruitment and retention in manufacturing

Tools

• Cost of employee turnover calculator

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Webinars from our colleagues in Marsh:

• COVID-19 Considerations for Organisations Manufacturing Ventilators 
• COVID-19: Manufacturing - Restarting Your Future - Maximising Recovery
• COVID-19: Manufacturing - Restarting Your Future - Workforce

40% of all manufacturers have experienced difficulties sourcing components and a further 49% anticipate future difficulties.¹ How can you help to manage and mitigate the most likely causes of a headache in your supply chain?

Thought leadership

• Top 5 supply chain risks for manufacturers
• Top 5 supply chain management tips for manufacturers
• How to create resiliency against future risks from our colleagues in Marsh

Webinars

• Overcoming supply chain challenges in manufacturing

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Turning people risk into a business opportunity

Discover the key people risks facing UK businesses and why HR and risk teams must collaborate to address these. A great report from our colleagues in Mercer Marsh Benefits.

• Download the report
• View the infographic

Calculate the cost of employee turnover

Recruitment remains a serious issue for the manufacturing sector. It is now more important than ever for businesses to revisit their recruitment strategy and elevate their efforts to recruit the best talent. Use our calculator to see the cost of disengaged employees, loss of productivity and finding your next new recruit.

International Women's Day 2021

The manufacturing and engineering sector is one that must constantly remain on the pulse of societal needs, meeting each new challenge with market leading innovation and product development. But how do the leaders in their fields reach their goals, what are their drivers, and what has stood in their way in order to obtain it?

Jenny Manning, Aerospace Engineering Manager, BAE Systems. And Ruth Amos, entrepreneur and inventor of the StairSteady. Discussed all in our webinar View recording.

The Roots of Leadership, provides a unique platform for listeners to learn from leaders, innovators and motivators. Created and hosted by our former CEO Anthony C. Gruppo, the podcast aims to help others weld their passion to their potential, to increase their performance. Guests include:

Touker Suleyman - fashion retail entrepreneur, investor, business owner and of course one of the highly respected moguls on hit television programme, ‘Dragons’ Den’.

Jamie Peacock MBE - former Rugby League player, motivational speaker and mentor.
And many more inspirational leaders.

Listen to the podcast.