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Stress in the workplace is firmly established as one of the highest priorities that organisations need to address from a legal, moral and business perspective. It has attracted a great deal of media interest recently, particularly relating to the number of successful compensation claims made against employers with some being in excess of £100k. The way to tackle the problem has created much debate but Sypol agrees with the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) view that the simple risk assessment approach will help to reduce the stress factor and also assist in compliance with legislation.
Steps to Success
Sypol’s stress management programme, Steps to Success, provides customers with a sensible step by step approach focusing on the causes of stress, the stressors, and management of these utilising the HSE Management Standards for Stress. In this way stress related ill health, whether caused or exacerbated by work related sressors, can be prevented to the benefit of both staff and the organisation as a whole.
Using Steps to Success will ensure that:
- The discharge of legal duties by showing that a suitable stress management system recognised by the enforcing authority is in place
- You are able to measure occupational health and wellbeing performance as rigorously as accident frequency rates using sickness absence and staff churn rates as key measures
- Your line managers understand and implement good line management practice and understand how this can influence good performance with regard to stress management
- Managers and staff understand what stress management is about and how the HSE stress management programme works
- You are ready to roll out the HSE stress management standards programme
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