Employers are failing to take action to combat workplace stress, even though it is considered the main health and safety issue affecting business today.
A report published today by the Industrial Society, Promoting Well-Being, indicates that 74 per cent of the 656 HR respondents claimed that stress would be the main occupational health hazard over the next two years.
But the survey revealed only a third of employers monitored workplace stress and that only 29 per cent had policies in place to tackle it.
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Sixty three per cent of organisations failed to provide stress awareness coaching for employees and only 8 per cent trained line managers in health promotion issues.
