MANAGING PRESSURE, REDUCING STRESS

New working practices and rapid technological advances are changing the nature of many jobs and there is growing evidence that these trends appear to be contributing considerably to a climate which is impacting negatively on well-being at work causing stress.

Perhaps now more than ever before, stress poses a threat to the health and performance of employees and, in turn, to the health and productivity of organisations. Organise a bite sized interactive seminar for your staff or enrol your managers on the Champion in Health and Well-being Management and identify how much more effective you or your business could be by reducing stress and improving well-being.

Successes - what others have said

A recent participant commented: “This training programme has effectively developed Well-being Champions within the workplace and embeded the management of health and wellbeing”

Courses with specific relevance to stress include:

Stress in the workplace not only damages a business’s performance it also creates a legal duty to be treated like any other health hazard. Employers have a clear responsibility to ensure that risks from stress in the workplace are minimised. A Stress Audit Risk Assessment is a good starting point for employers seeking to answer this growing problem.

Responsibility rests with the employee too - they must recognise when they become stressed and must then take steps to counter the effects on themselves.
The challenge for employers is to ensure that their employees understand what stress is, how it can affect them and what they can do about it.
Traditionally employers have taken a reactive approach to stress management. Our experience and research shows that this can be ineffective, costly and risky.
We believe a proactive stance employing a Health and Well-being Strategy consisting of three intervention levels is more likely to be successful:

Well established ways of preventing work pressure from turning into stress include:


If you would like to find out more about managing stress in your organisation, please get in touch to discuss your requirements. Call us on 0800 3894672 or click here to fill in the contact form and a member of our team will get back to you shortly.