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I am currently interested to understand what other businesses are doing regarding stress within their organisations. I have seen the examples on HSE, but how are others pitching this within their businesses.
What support and control measures are in place
Do you have policies relating to workplace stress / wellbeing, what depth and how has it been received by managers and employees?
What information / training have you provided managers with
Does anyone actually conduct or had RA's on individuals?
Kind regards
DJ
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Hi,
I think there will be a broad range of approaches to this. I recently worked for a council that had a well developed procedure for stress assessments and some training for managers.
The process included a departmental risk assessment that each department must complete and then an individual assessment where an individual was suffering from stress or was changing to a higher "risk" position.
The process looked good but in reality I didn't see it doing much to reduce stress levels - bit of a paper exercise.
I did sit in on one of the individual assessments but felt out of my depth - seemed more of an issue for HR / Occ Health experts. I always get confused with judging acceptable levels of stress - what stresses one individual might not stress another.
Another company I worked for had a rather different approach. The CEO didn't believe that stress existed!
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Hi DJ, Yes we have a very good policy, we conduct stress assessments, we provide training for managers and we look after our staff. In fact I conducted an assessment just yesterday. The effects of adverse stress on staff is just as valid as a broken leg. liz
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We have a Policy and Guidance document including a risk assessment template for managers. Stress management is included in H&S training for staff and managers.
It has been very well received and gives managers a structure within which they can support their staff
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Hi all, this is a good example of sectorial companies agreement and formal involvement related to stress management, including some best practices examples.
http://www.bitc.org.uk/p...l-health-were-ready-talk
(best practices of UK companies from different sectors, it shows how tackling mental wellbeing in the workplace will impact in the organisation)
Best regards.
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there is some great stuff out there to evaluate but remember that its the very managers themselves that can be the biggest stressors to the staff so U need an impartial 'middleman' system to be able to use to support this area and I have found that HR is not the area to use as I have found that staff think that HR is a employers tool
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Martin’s experience is similar to my own.
The SHE team had input to the stress policy etc and we helped wellbeing set it all up but the policy does not seem to have made much difference.
Managers’ understand the theory of stress but do not really apply it.
Trying to get real buy-in is really difficult despite all of the events, offers of aromatherapy, etc the people at the top don’t take it very seriously.
Bob Youel’s comments about ‘good managers’ being a cause of stress set me thinking. I thought that a good manager was one that got the best out of their staff, not one that drove them to a breakdown. If you think that a ‘good manager’ is one that simply delivers whatever the top brass’s latest wheeze is then yes they usually are the main source of the stress but also part of a chain leading down to the poor sap at the bottom.
It is important to have some way around this by having independent ‘welfare’ people who can act as a cutout between stressed individuals and their management.
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