Posted By sue cotten Has anyone a stress policy developed around the proposed stress management standards that they are willing to share.

Posted By Nick Egan Sue I have emailed you directly. But for general discussion Our draft policy just commits us to the HSE management standards and I have used the term "Psychological Hazards" in our draft policy, because this accords with other areas of health and safety, chemical hazards, musculoskeletal hazards etc. I think stress is a term wrongly or loosely applied and that the whole issue has been hijacked by various (often financially) interested parties and it is time that H&S profession reclaimed it from the HR meddlers. The place where HR does have a role is in coordinating the response to the build-up to, or aftermath of a psychological crisis at the individual level.

Posted By Richy With regard to stress risk maangement look at HSG 218 everyone else does. Richy

Posted By Nick Egan Geof puts the managment of stress firmly in the HR camp, If you take stress to be the symptomatic expressinon of the adverse effects of Psychological Hazards, then I would agree. However I still say that there should be a distinction between cause and effect, otherwise wouldn't HR be responsible for Chemical Hazards etc? In practice the manager has the responsibility for controling the work hazards.