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Stress: symptom or cause?
Richard Snowdon | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 01.09.2008
Stress takes a multitude of forms and affects people in different ways. In the second of a two-part series on mental health, Richard Snowdon, Business Director of RSCPP, a website offering bespoke employee assistance programmes, explains how employers can alleviate the causes of stress in ther workplace.
Employee counselling: increasing performance
Richard Snowdon | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 15.08.2008
Employment assistance programmes (EAPs) can reduce an organisation's costs due to employees' work stress and absence and increase workers' efficiency and commitment and overall work performance. Richard Snowdon is the Business Director of RSCPP, a website which offers bespoke EAP solutions. Here he discusses the value that EAPs can bring to both employees and organisations.
Site specifics: stress
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 10.03.2008
The HSE says 13.8 million working days were lost in 2006/07 due to work stress, depression and anxiety. Citing HSE research from 2001, the TUC estimates the financial impact is around £3.7 billion. The cost now could be even higher. Bridget Leathley signposts the best sites on the web for guidance on tackling work-related stress.
Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage workers to report ill-health symptoms. The employee-centred approach aids locating workplace health hazards and flagging up workers' health problems, especially musculoskeletal disorders, as Jocelyn Dorrell reports.
Safeguarding workers abroad
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007
Business travel is an integral part of many Britons' jobs. Despite huge advances in information and communications technology, UK residents made more than nine million journeys abroad for work last year - up 12% since 2004. But what toll does it take on their health and safety and how can the risks be best managed? Becky Allen reports.
Supporting victims of workplace violence
Brian Edwards | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Many line managers and supervisors often lack the skills to help support and rehabilitate employees who become victims of violence or aggression in the workplace. Brian Edwards of Maybo explains why line managers have a pivotal role in providing support to victims who experience violent incidents at work.
Just another hazard
Oliver Brennan | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
People who continually verbally abuse, threaten, humiliate and denigrate colleagues, causing them unreasonable stress, are themselves hazards and, as such, are harmful to the health and safety of people unfortunate enough to have to work with them. Oliver Brennan says that you should apply the same risk management techniques to workplace bullies that you would to any inanimate hazard.
Stress management at Manchester University
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.05.2007
Implementing a consistent and unified stress policy in an organisation the size of the University of Manchester, which has 11,000 employees, is no mean feat. Jocelyn Dorrell reports its stress-management and wellbeing initiative.
Fatigue at work
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Fatigue at work dents productivity and can lead to accidents. Lucie Ponting sends a wake-up call.
An employer's use of a stress risk audit to cut absence
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
In the last of our series, Sara Bean talks to an employer who is walking the stress risk audit talk and has cut sickness absence by a percentage point
Stress: The assessment stage
Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
In the third and last of her series on effective stress risk auditing, Rosemary Anderson moves on to the risk assessment itself.
Stress: preparing the way
Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006
In the second of our series on stress management, Rosemary Anderson explains how to get ready for a risk assessment.
Stress: breaking down barriers
Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 01.04.2006
In the first of a series on managing stress, Rosemary Anderson considers the obstacles to effective risk assessment
The next big challenge
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 04.03.2006
H&S professionals are shy of tackling health issues, argues Sara Bean, but that is where their next big challenge lies
New disability discrimination law requires adjustments for mental conditions
Elizabeth Gates | Features | HSW | 01.03.2006
New disability discrimination law requires employers to make adjustments for mental conditions such as phobias and depression. Elizabeth Gates reviews the duties
WHASS-up? UK's hidden illness rates
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.01.1900
Lucie Ponting reports on a new HSE survey
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