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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.
Cases in point: stress
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008
Lawrence Bamber reviews the most important common-law cases which have been brought to court as a result of poor stress risk management, in the latest of his revision guide for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma.
Pressure relief: tackling stress
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
In the latest of his catch-up articles for NEBOSH National Diploma students, Lawrence Bamber looks at the causes and control of work-related stress in the workplace.
Getting caught in the trap: stress management
Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Over the last five years, the number of working days lost per year due to work-related stress (WRS), anxiety and depression has remained pretty constant, fluctuating around the 13 million mark. If employers aren't making enough progress in workplace stress management, it's because they keep getting caught in the same traps, argues Rosemary Anderson.
Sound stress management training
Paul Smith | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
Stress is one of the slipperiest of health and safety topics. Though it's seen by managers as, at best, a difficult subject and, at worst, a complete impostor, stress in the workplace just cannot be ignored. Paul Smith looks at what you should expect from sound stress management training.
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.
Please speak up: encouraging employees to flag up health problems
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 17.10.2007
A whole raft of cultural and organisational barriers mean that too many UK workers are still failing to flag occupational health problems - whether or not they are caused by their jobs - until they can no longer work. Lucie Ponting looks at ways to encourage employees to flag up health problems such as stress or MSDs before they become acute.
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.
Hazards of call centre headsets
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
What will keep health and safety managers busy in years to come? A lack of physical activity by desk-bound employees? Thermal discomfort and "multi-factoral risks" where workers face a number of interacting risks? Jocelyn Dorrell finds that some of the hazards faced by call centre workers come via their headsets.
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: 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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