Women’s captain Ella Kinzett added: “We know now that the vast majority of suicides are preventable and talking about it is the first step when it comes to standing up to suicide.”
Mike McCarthy, who founded Baton of Hope, said he was delighted Sheffield United had agreed to sign up, describing it as “basically a kite mark of best practice in suicide prevention”.
He said: “It affects us all to one degree or another because nobody, tragically, is immune to suicide.
“In all kinds of industries we need to make the workplace psychologically safer for everyone.”