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New Initiatives in managing workplace stress

Work related stress is a growing occupational health concern and one that can leave employers scratching their heads about how best to manage it. There seem to be more questions than answers: What am I responsible for? Who is likely to be affected? Is my employee support scheme enough or do I need to do more? How do I spot it? Can I predict it?

Until recently the methods for doing managing stress at work have relied on reactive ‘sticking plaster’ methods targeted at helping those people who became ill as a result of occupational stress, rather than at preventing it happening. But this approach has done little to halt the rise in reported levels of workplace stress or the personal distress and lost performance associated with it, and so the Health and Safety Executive has taken steps to move stress into the standard risk management format used to manage other workplace health and safety risks. For many employers this change means that they need to radically rethink how they manage stress within their organisations.

How can we help?

We help employers understand how stress management can progress beyond the individual specific focus of the past and towards more generic and effective approaches to managing stress at work. As part of this we help organisation's develop, implement and manage stress risks, at both generic and specific level, and to migrate reactive stress risk management towards new and more proactive techniques, so achieving prevention as well as cure.

We provide a range of services aimed at managing workplace stress, including:

  • design and audit of stress related policies and procedures
  • facilitation of staff consultations about stress and related workplace hazards
  • analysis of stress hazards
  • risk assessment and risk management plans
  • training and mentoring for line and executive management about stress
  • employee training on stress management
  • provision of stress related training manuals and documentation
  • audit of stress management activities

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