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Stress is a risk-factor in most workplaces, however the exact nature
of the stressors will vary with the unique culture of each organisation
and your stress management action plan needs to be tailored to reflect this.
A sample approach is outlined below:
Step 1 - Get senior team fully committed to tackling stress. This means
being prepared to acknowledge that stress is an issue and then committing
the time and resources to tackling it. This may also mean reviewing and
improving your own working practises if these are creating unnecessary
pressure and demands!
Step 2 - Agree who will have ultimate accountability for tackling
work-related stress and who will be responsible for physically leading
or working through any agreed actions.
Step 3 - Assess the current situation - identify which aspects of work
are stressful and how you compare with the HSE standards. This may sound
daunting but there are many different ways of approaching this dependent
upon the culture of your organisation - involving anything from focus or
working groups to on-line audit tools.
Step 4 - Develop solutions to bring about an improvement. There are three
recognised levels of interventions:
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