HSE stress standards remain a valid tool, study says

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) management standards indicator tool that is used to assess work-related stress remains valid and is a good way of assessing different aspects of distress, including self-perceptions of stress at work.

This is the main conclusion of a study of 760 employees in an Italian municipality that compared the results of using the HSE stress tool with another widely used survey instrument, the Job Content Questionnaire.

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Regression highlighted the contribution of each of the HSE tool’s scales in predicting three work-related stress outcomes – self-reported stress, job satisfaction and job motivation (controlled for gender, age and life satisfaction).

Marcatto F et al (2014). “The HSE management standards indicator tool: concurrent and construct validity”. Occupational Medicine, first published online 22 March.