This one-day course is designed for employers, managers or anyone responsible for supervising staff or for tackling stress in the workplace. The course is also relevant to anyone wishing to understand the legal and management issues surrounding stress in the workplace.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at people who are concerned with or who have responsibility for managing stress at work, including:
Directors
Managers
Supervisors
Team leaders
Occupational health professionals
Human resources professionals
Safety professionals
Safety representatives/Representatives of employee safety
Duration
1 day
Aim
To enable candidates to effectively manage work-related stress
Overview
Stress in the workplace reduces productivity, increases management pressures, and makes people ill in many ways, evidence of which is still increasing. Workplace stress affects the performance of the brain, including functions of work performance; memory, concentration, and learning. In the UK over 13 million working days are lost every year because of stress. Stress is believed to trigger 70% of visits to doctors, and 85% of serious illnesses (UK HSE stress statistics). Stress at work also provides a serious risk of litigation for all employers and organisations, carrying significant liabilities for damages, bad publicity and loss of reputation. Dealing with stress-related claims also consumes vast amounts of management time. So, there are clearly strong economic and financial reasons for organisations to manage and reduce stress at work, aside from the obvious humanitarian and ethical considerations.
Course content
What is stress?
Sources of stress
Persons at risk
The implications under health and safety legislation
What action to take and how?
Taking action on personal stress
Taking action on work-related stress
Principles of prevention
Support mechanisms for persons experiencing work-related stress
The business case for addressing work-related stress
