Source: IRS Employment Review Issue: 914 Date: 29/01/2009 Publisher: IRS

Employers' stress management activities: the IRS survey

TOPICS:
employee relations employee relations challenges and tools
health and safety health and safety management
employee health

AUTHOR: Neil Rankin


More than 100 employers share their experience of stress management in this IRS survey, which highlights the measures used to reduce the impact of work stress, against the background of growing pressure among the national workforce as the economic crisis deepens.

On this page:
Stress at work: an introduction and overview
What is "stress"?
Interview with Professor Cary Cooper
Legal background to work stress
Prevalence of work related stress
Prevalence of action by employers
Employers’ motivations for introducing stress management
The HSE management standards and other resources
Employers’ use of the HSE stress resources
Investigating work stress
Measures to manage stress
Providing training relevant to stress management
Outcomes of employers’ stress management
Uncertain outcomes
Effective stress management: employers’ recommendations
Prospects for stress levels: the recession
Our research
Table 1: Research into, and assessments of, work related stress
Table 2: Stress management measures
Table 3: Stress-related training provision
Table 4: The impact of employers’ efforts to manage stress
Box 1: Effective stress management: employers’ recommendations
Additional resources.

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