On Work Related Stress in Your Business
Take this as a good reminder to take some time out to speak to staff and understand any stress issues that they may be having. Did you know that, as an employer, it is your legal duty to prevent stress at work?
The “Health” part of Health and Safety is as much about mental as it is physical health and employers must safeguard their staff's mental well-being. Plus, neglecting stress issues can cause lower productivity, more absences, and a harmful work atmosphere.
What can you do to help your staff?
Your business must find and deal with stress triggers for example, heavy workloads, lack of control, poor management, or bullying. After spotting these issues, you should act to lessen or remove them (follow the risk assessment process).
Some good solutions to share with your team:
Encouraging an open, supportive culture.
Give regular, safe space to share worries.
Ensure workloads are appropriate and achievable.
Promoting positive working, avoid conflict and deal with unacceptable behaviour.
Take action on stress risks you have identified.
Keep communication open across all levels of the business.
Some businesses even offer access to counseling, with affordable solutions available now through various EAP Programs or part of private healthcare options.
How N90 Can Help You
I assist businesses by helping make sure that their Management systems allow a safe place to work for everybody. We tackle and prevent work related stress together by demonstrating good practice, following a step-by-step risk assessment approach:
assess the current situation using pre-existing data, surveys and other techniques
promote active discussion and working in partnership with employees and their representatives, to help decide on practical improvements that can be made
help simplify risk assessment for work-related stress by:
identifying the main risk factors
helping employers focus on the underlying causes and their prevention
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