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Managing Work Organisation Hazards
It’s good business practice to keep track of stress at work, otherwise your business may face increases in absenteeism or even employees leaving your organisation. Intense workloads can be major stressors for your employees, which can lead to productivity drops and absenteeism.
Stress is the number one cause of occupational ill health, accounting for 44% of new and long-standing work-related illnesses. It should be a key component of your health and safety strategy. With suitable stress management for business advice and health and safety business services, you can handle busy professionals with effective strategies to support your business goals.
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Stress management for business protects your people and productivity
Workplace stress can have a significant impact on employees’ health, morale, work rate, attendance and working relationships. In turn, this can create a long list of problems for employers: excessive employee absences, long-term sickness, high turnover, difficulties recruiting and retaining staff, and even litigation by those affected by workplace stress.
At WorkNest, we can help you with expert employment law and work related stress support services. This includes an assessment for risk factors to meet duty of care responsibilities under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Assess how well you’re managing all workplace hazards, including adherence to the HSE’s stress management standards, through an on-site health and safety audit (General Risk Assessment)
Equip managers and employees with stress management techniques through stress awareness training and business eLearning
Document your arrangements with expert-created risk assessment templates, plus a robust business Health & Safety policy containing a specific section on stress
Get unlimited business support from a dedicated Health & Safety Consultant, who will work with you to ensure safety and compliance in all risk areas
Uncover and improve employees’ attitudes and perceptions in key health and safety areas
The importance of mental health support for businesses
The importance of mental health support for businesses
The importance of mental health support for businesses
As an employer, you may overlook work organisation hazards such as stress, focusing instead on controlling physical safety hazards. However, given the business implications of failing to manage employee wellbeing, it’s important you recognise signs of stress in staff and take proactive steps to remove or reduce the causes.
This could be anything from unrealistic or last-minute deadlines to a lack of training or job insecurity. In many cases, stress can be attributed to a lack of support.
If this is a concern within your organisation, or you are keen to take positive action before problems arise, at WorkNest we can help you to meet your obligations under health and safety law and create engaged, high-performing teams.
As an employer, you may overlook work organisation hazards such as stress, focusing instead on controlling physical safety hazards. However, given the business implications of failing to manage employee wellbeing, it’s important you recognise signs of stress in staff and take proactive steps to remove or reduce the causes.
This could be anything from unrealistic or last-minute deadlines to a lack of training or job insecurity. In many cases, stress can be attributed to a lack of support.
If this is a concern within your organisation, or you are keen to take positive action before problems arise, at WorkNest we can help you to meet your obligations under health and safety law and create engaged, high-performing teams.
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HR matters come with the territory when you run a business or manage an organisation and we’re here to help you through it all. Whether you’re battling absenteeism, struggling to manage an underperforming employee or need help navigating a complicated exercise like redundancy, we can walk you through the steps required to handle the situation appropriately.
Yes. All of our advisers are qualified legal professionals or on the road to formal qualification, which means a full range of employee issues can be dealt with within your dedicated three-person team. In the event that you’re presented with an Employment Tribunal claim, we will conduct a full handover to our Litigation Team so that they are well equipped to defend you.
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Experts in business stress and anxiety support
Why choose us?
Experts in business stress and anxiety support
Why choose us?
Experts in business stress and anxiety support
If you’re not confident in your current practices, or don’t have professional support in place, our network of qualified Health & Safety Consultants can help you to build a safe and compliant working environment through expert support tailored to your organisation.
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FAQs
If you’re not confident in your current practices, or don’t have professional support in place, our network of qualified Health & Safety Consultants can help you to build a safe and compliant working environment through expert support tailored tIt’s the psychological and physical strain of workplace demands upon an employee. Once a professional’s ability to cope is exceeded, it may have serious consequences for them. This can include illness, absenteeism, and (in some cases) leaving their role with an organisation.o your organisation.
All organisations should have an assessment for workplace stress and have measures in place to mitigate it. Stress is often not reported or recognised until staff start to suffer symptoms, so having systems in place to identify and deal with this early is important.
Pressure is a challenge and/or a demand that comes naturally with a role and can be a positive part of working life (an incentive to complete tasks). Stress is when an employee is overloaded by tasks and begins to lose productivity as a result.
Yes, there is an increased risk of harmful effects from stress and anxiety for those working at home due to the pandemic. Your assessment should consider both physical hazards, such as those associated with work equipment, work station set-up and working alone, and mental health and wellbeing hazards, such as stress, isolation and fatigue.
There is no one law specifically covering stress. Instead, protection comes from a range of sources. Common law dictates that employers are responsible for the general safety of their employees while at work. Statutory law such as the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 states that employers must take reasonable steps to make sure workplaces are safe and healthy and control identified risks.
In addition, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require employers to carry out a “suitable and sufficient” assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees. As an employer, you are required to put proper controls in place to avoid these risks, wherever possible. Where it is not possible to avoid risk, steps must be taken to reduce them so far as is “reasonably practicable”.
Yes, a stress risk assessment legal requirement is mandatory under UK law. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 it’s a legal requirement for you, the employer, to conduct a risk assessment at work. It’s your duty of care as an employer to protect the physical and mental well-being of all your employees. Refer to our guide to handling stress in the workplace to fully understand your legal obligations and prevention tactics.
If you’re not confident in your current practices, or don’t have professional support in place, our network of qualified Health & Safety Consultants can help you to build a safe and compliant working environment through expert support tailored tIt’s the psychological and physical strain of workplace demands upon an employee. Once a professional’s ability to cope is exceeded, it may have serious consequences for them. This can include illness, absenteeism, and (in some cases) leaving their role with an organisation.o your organisation.
Pressure is a challenge and/or a demand that comes naturally with a role and can be a positive part of working life (an incentive to complete tasks). Stress is when an employee is overloaded by tasks and begins to lose productivity as a result.
There is no one law specifically covering stress. Instead, protection comes from a range of sources. Common law dictates that employers are responsible for the general safety of their employees while at work. Statutory law such as the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 states that employers must take reasonable steps to make sure workplaces are safe and healthy and control identified risks.
In addition, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require employers to carry out a “suitable and sufficient” assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees. As an employer, you are required to put proper controls in place to avoid these risks, wherever possible. Where it is not possible to avoid risk, steps must be taken to reduce them so far as is “reasonably practicable”.
All organisations should have an assessment for workplace stress and have measures in place to mitigate it. Stress is often not reported or recognised until staff start to suffer symptoms, so having systems in place to identify and deal with this early is important.
Yes, there is an increased risk of harmful effects from stress and anxiety for those working at home due to the pandemic. Your assessment should consider both physical hazards, such as those associated with work equipment, work station set-up and working alone, and mental health and wellbeing hazards, such as stress, isolation and fatigue.
Yes, a stress risk assessment legal requirement is mandatory under UK law. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 it’s a legal requirement for you, the employer, to conduct a risk assessment at work. It’s your duty of care as an employer to protect the physical and mental well-being of all your employees. Refer to our guide to handling stress in the workplace to fully understand your legal obligations and prevention tactics.
