Stress is a Health and Safety Issue

Stress affects your profits. Stressed staff take more time off sick, are irritable, struggling to cope, and unhappy. Relaxed staff are healthier, calmer, more efficient and more effective.
Which do you think is best for your business?


In 2003, The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) introduced work-related stress audits into its routine health and safety inspections. Despite this:
 

• Stress remains the number one ranked reason for long-term absence for non-manual employees (Source: www.hse.gov.uk)
• In 2009/10 an estimated 435 000 people in Great Britain suffered from stress caused/made worse by their current/past work. (Source: www.hse.gov.uk)
• In 2009/10, an estimated 9.8 million working days were lost through work-related stress (Source: www.hse.gov.uk)
• The 2009 Psychosocial Working Conditions survey indicated that around 16.7% of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful
• THOR surveillance data from General Practitioners indicates that 30.9% of all diagnoses of work-related ill-health are cases of mental ill-health, with an average length of sickness absence per certified case of 26.8 working days (Source: www.hse.gov.uk)
• The 2009 Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC) survey indicated that around 16.7% of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful.
• THOR surveillance data from General Practitioners indicates that 30.9% of all diagnoses of work-related ill-health are cases of mental ill-health, with an average length of sickness absence per certified case of 26.8 working days
  (Source: www.hse.gov.uk)