Posted By Denn Would appreciate your thoughts on whether a specific stress policy is required or is a robust HEALTH and safety policy sufficient?

Posted By CJP I find most H & S policies are general in nature "protect our employees...", etc. If you have identified that stress is a significant risk in your organisation you should have a specific policy / procedures on how to mitigate the risk, including recognising the symptoms and dealing with them.

Posted By Liz Skelton It is best practice to have a stress policy and then specific management procedures attached - happy to talk this through if you want to contact me Thanks Liz

Posted By Jon Robinson Stress seems to be an issue that is high up on the HSE's agenda at the moment, and in my dealings with them they have strongly indicated that a dedicated stress management policy is the route that they want us to follow. In the view of the inspector a stress policy signed by the Chief Exc or MD to show high level committment to tackling organisational stress is the a key step to take. This then needs to be followed up by a risk assessment. There is lots of useful information on the HSE website, including a draft stress policy (see link below)! http://www.hse.gov.uk/st...studies/stresspolicy.htm Cheers Jon

Posted By Casanova Never got the HSE/stress thing!! They bang on about but it's not RIDDOR!! Casanova X