Posted By Kieran J Duignan PST I wonder, from your presentation of the facts, to what extent you may have been facing a good opportunity to assess the risks of neglecting the sources of stress presented to you. 'The time and the place' may have been just where you were, but 'H & S', like other areas of working life, doesn't come in boxes neatly labelled. If it's not too late, provide feedback to the supervisor on the evidence presented by employees about unhealthy stress - and offer to training him/her and them to manage their work-related stresses more cost-effectively.

Posted By Kieran J Duignan PST On the basis of what you now write, I wonder to what extent the critical issue lies in your apparent misinterpretation of the reliability and validity of the 'cause' of employee stress. What methods did you use to evaluate the reliability and validity of data about the supervisor as 'cause' of stress? How well did you check out your methods with the supervisor him/her-self?