Stress: practical guidance for line managers

This line manager briefing provides guidance on the causes and symptoms of stress, and helping employees who are experiencing stress. It also covers the measures to put in place to help prevent stress from occurring. 

• Line manager briefing on stress Stress can have a detrimental impact on employees who experience it. We provide guidance specifically for line managers on: how to spot stress; managing stress, including dealing with short- and long-term sickness absence; and preventing stress. 

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The XpertHR policies and documents service provides a model stress at work policy and procedure, which organisations can use to set out their rules on stress and the steps to be taken to reduce the health and safety risks associated with stress. 

Practical steps to manage stress: the 2011 survey The latest XpertHR research reports on the steps employers are taking to prevent and manage stress at work, including sickness absence measures and occupational health support. 

City and Hackney NHS Trust builds a preventative framework for managing work-related stress City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust believes that the NHS should be an exemplar employer when it comes to employee health and wellbeing, and has put in place a range of measures for preventing and managing stress at work.