Keywords: health and safety, stress, RSCPP, Richard Snowdon, mental health,

Stress: symptom or cause?

Richard Snowdon | Feature | IIRSM Newsletter
01.09.2008

Society as a whole uses the word 'stress' so flippantly; people say "I'm really stressed" when they actually mean "I'm under pressure". Too much pressure can tip over into stress, however. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines stress as "the adverse reaction peopl ...

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