Barceidillo :: Corporate and Professional Stress Management

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Work related stress is a growing issue and as the latest H&S Executive Statistics show, with 10.5 million days lost to stress annually has now taken over from musculoskeletal disorders as the most commonly reported type of work related illness.

Whether we like it or not stress is a problem. We can't discount it as “all in the mind” and think that people who claim to be suffering from stress need to “pull themselves together”. The government, the medical establishment and the courts all recognise it as a real issue that needs to be addressed by every employer.

Employers have a Duty of Care to assess the risk of stress-related ill health under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and to take measures to control that risk under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 .

H&S Executive Approach – The Management Standards

The H&S Executive recommend bringing stress into the open and dealing with it head on. In November 2004, to assist employers in the workplace the H&S Executive developed a set of Management Standards.

The Management Standards represent a set of conditions that reflect high levels of health, well being and organisational performance. They cover 6 key areas of work and the primary sources of stress at work:

Demands of your job – such as workload, work patterns and the work environment
Control over your work – such as how much say a person has in the way they do their work
Support – such as the encouragement, sponsorship and resources provided by the organisation, line management and colleagues.
Relationships at work – such as promoting positive working to avoid conflict and dealing with unacceptable behaviour.
Role – such as whether people understand their role within the organisation and whether the organisation ensures that they do not have conflicting roles.
Change – such as how organisational change (large or small) is managed and communicated in the organisation.

The H&S Executives ‘Management Standards for Work-related Stress' provide a clear blueprint that can be applied in any organisation that is seeking to tackle stress.

They also suggest how the standards can be maintained in practice through dialogue, focus groups, risk assessments, surveys, etc. in order to identify and address problem areas.

For information on how Barceidillo can help you fulfil your Duty of Care obligations Click here

HSE Resources for Managing Stress

You can read more about the HSE approach in their free leaflet ‘Tackling Stress: The Management Standards approach’, available from their website at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg406.pdf

WIRRAL PRIMARY CARE TRUST SELECT BARCEIDILLO

Wirral Primary Care Trust in partnership with Wirral Local Authority have commissioned Barceidillo to design and deliver a programme of 12 stress awareness workshops for their line manager population.

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RIPH APPROVED ASSESSMENT CENTRE

The Royal Institute of Public Health has approved Barceidillo as one of their Assessment Centre enabling us to deliver the RIPH’s newest qualification, Level 2 Understanding Health Improvement.

The qualification in raising awareness of health and wellbeing enables individuals to “signpost” others to interventions and services to support them in choosing and adopting healthier lifestyles.

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