Stress - training employers
Leaflets and information
Stress at work facts and figures, a report by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
- A CIPD overview factsheet on stress and how to manage it
- CIPD Building the business case for managing stress in the workplace
- A short guide to the HSEManagement Standards for work-related stress
- Research about the business case for applying the HSEManagement Standards
- Stress handbook from ACAS with advice about how to implement the HSEManagement Standards
- How to deal with stress from Business Link
- Useful summary leaflet from the Australian government about how to ensure early intervention for stress
- Work-related stress: a guide from Local Government Employers, supported by the CBI, CEEP, DTI, FPB, HSE and TUC www.local.gov.uk
- Stress management competency indicator tool from HSE and CIPD
- HSEStress inspection pack guidance for HSE inspectors assessing employers’ management of work-related stress
- Copies of health and safety legislation from OPSI
- Sickness absence management and return-to-work advice from the HSE
- HSE guidance on managing sickness absence and return to work
- Raising awareness of stress at work in developing countries from the World Health Organization
Links
- Case studies from the HSE showing what organisations have done to combat stress
- Mental health charity MindMental health at work campaign www.mind.org.uk
- The symptoms, causes of stress and other useful information from NHS Direct
- An overview of the issues surrounding work-related health from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
- ACAS (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) provides information about improving organisations and working life through better employment relations
- Health and wellbeing self-check tool from Investors in People www.investorsinpeople.co.uk
- HSE, CIPD and Investors in People Line Management Competency Indicator Tool information
- The International Stress Management Association UK a charitable organisation aimed at promoting knowledge in the prevention and reduction of stress and stress management www.isma.org.uk
- Stress: your legal responsibilities as an employer, from the HSE www.hse.gov.uk
PowerPoint slides
IOSH's Stress:Manager’s training can be used for training purposes. An editable supplementary slide may be incorporated to tailor the material to a particular organisation
Health and work: an overview A presentation from the HSE that may help to secure management commitment to the process of addressing work-related stress.
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