Training material

Education for employers

Leaflets and information

Links

PowerPoint slides

Leaflets and information

Stress at work – facts and figures, a report by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

• A CIPD overview factsheet on stress and how to manage it
• CIPD’s Building the business case for managing stress in the workplace
• A short guide to the HSE’s Management Standards for work-related stress
• Research about the business case for applying the HSE’s Management Standards
• Stress handbook from ACAS with advice about how to implement the HSE’s Management Standards
• How to deal with stress from Business Link
• Useful summary leaflet from the Australian government about how to ensure early intervention for stress
• Work-related stress: a guide from Local Government Employers, supported by the CBI, CEEP, DTI, FPB, HSE and TUC
• Advice about workplace interventions for people with common mental health problems from the British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF)
• Stress management competency indicator tool from HSE and CIPD
• HSE’s Stress inspection pack – guidance for HSE inspectors assessing employers’ management of work-related stress
• Copies of health and safety legislation from OPSI
• Sickness absence management and return-to-work advice from the HSE
• Advice from ACAS on managing attendance and employee turnover
• HSE guidance on managing sickness absence and return to work
• Raising awareness of stress at work in developing countries from the World Health Organization
• Small changes, big difference NHS Choices' advice for line managers on supporting employees with long-term medical condition
• Developing resilience an evidence based guide for practitioners supported by CIPD, IOSH and Workwell
  

Links

• Case studies from the HSE showing what organisations have done to combat stress
• Mental health charity Mind’s Mental health at work campaign
• Statistics on stress-related and psychological disorders from the HSE
• The symptoms, causes of stress and other useful information from NHS Direct
• An overview of the issues surrounding work-related health from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
• ACAS (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) provides information about improving organisations and working life through better employment relations
• Health and wellbeing self-check tool from Investors in People
• HSE, CIPD  and Investors in People Line Management Competency Indicator Tool information  
• The International Stress Management Association UK – a charitable organisation aimed at promoting knowledge in the prevention and reduction of stress and stress management
• Stress: your legal responsibilities as an employer, from the HSE

PowerPoint slides

IOSH’s  Stress: Manager’s training can be used for training purposes.  An editable ‘supplementary slide’ may be incorporated to tailor the material to a particular organisation

Health and work: an overview – A presentation from the HSE that may help to secure management commitment to the process of addressing work-related stress

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