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HSE updates stress analysis tool

Jocelyn Dorrell | News | HSP | 11.11.2008

MEPs vote to scrap working time opt-out

Jocelyn Dorrell | News | HSP | 10.11.2008

Stress casts "gloomy shadow" over workplaces, finds TUC

Jocelyn Dorrell | News | HSP | 27.10.2008

TUC cautions against compulsion in health initiatives

News | HSP | 04.09.2008

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.

Royal Mail delivers new health initiatives

News | HSP | 11.03.2008

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.

Stress and heart disease link strengthens

News | HSW | 11.02.2008

Stressed manager was unfairly refused flexible hours

Prosecutions and Claims | 10.01.2008

All work, no play

News | HSW | 10.01.2008

Lighter regulation questions

News | HSW | 12.12.2007

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.

Stress/depression link

News | HSW | 15.09.2007

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.

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