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Stress

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines work-related stress as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work”. Employers have a legal duty to manage the risks to employees’ health and safety, including the risks arising from stress.

Stress is frequently identified as one of the biggest causes of long-term sickness absence in employee absence studies and surveys. Following a good practice approach to managing stress is likely to have organisational benefits for employers, including reducing sickness absence.


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    Stress, stress, go away

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    Guidance from the Court of Appeal has clarified how OH professionals should tackle stress, as recent cases show. By Linda Goldman and Joan Lewis

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    Putting stress strategies in place

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    Stress may be a by-product of the modern, technological age, but we deal with it in the same way we would have once reacted to a woolly mammoth

    • Stress
    • Wellbeing

    Trainee doctors opt for GP jobs over stressful hospital posts

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    Growing numbers of trainee doctors are opting for a career in general practice rather than in hospitals because it is perceived to be less stressful and offer greater opportunities to work flexibly or part-time, according to a survey

    • Stress
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    Top UK companies have their say

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    Leaders of the UK's top 350 companies were canvassed over the summer for their views on the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) stress management standards

    • Stress
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    Taking a different approach

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    Kenneth Hambly looks at a new, and simple, way of tackling work-related stress

    • Stress
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    Stress – what works and what doesn’t

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    OH experts talk to Sally O'Reilly about the best ways to deal with work-related stress

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    Stress: a turning tide

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    With all the recent surveys and stories in the press about the rising levels of stress in the workplace, it is easy to see why there is a widespread fear that it is spiralling out of control, but is this really the case? Nic Paton reports

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    Sickies are worse for business than stress

    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 5 Sep 2004

    Workers taking 'sickies' place a greater burden on organisations than stress-related absence, a poll by an HR website has reported

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    Healthier workers are more productive

    by Personnel Today 2 Sep 2004
    by Personnel Today 2 Sep 2004

    People with good health can be 20 per cent more productive than their less healthy colleagues, according to initial findings...

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    Trainee doctors opt for GP jobs over stressful hospital posts

    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004
    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004

    Growing numbers of trainee doctors are opting for a career in general practice rather than in hospitals

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing

    Top UK companies have their say

    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004
    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004

    Leaders of the UK's top 350 companies were canvassed over the summer for their views on the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) stress management standards.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing

    HSE standards will have huge impact on stress management

    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004
    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004

    The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) stress management standards are set to have a profound impact on how employers tackle workplace stress

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing

    Aid workers at increased risk from trauma

    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004
    by Nic Paton 1 Sep 2004

    Aid workers are increasingly at risk from stress and trauma-related mental health conditions

    • Stress
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    Taking the fight to the bullies

    by Quentin Reade 6 Apr 2004
    by Quentin Reade 6 Apr 2004

    An initiative from the DTI and the Amicus union aims to help organisations take more proactive approach to dealing with...

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