THE Health and Safety Executive has published comprehensive guidance on preventing work-related stress.
It is aimed at managers in organisations employing more than 50 people and provides a step-by-step approach to tackling the causes of stress in the workplace. North-west figures show that in 1998/99 an estimated 40,000 people a year claimed to suffer from stress, depression or anxiety caused or made worse by work. Elizabeth Gyngell, the HSE's stress spokesperson, said: "A burnt-out workforce is an unproductive workforce and it is in no one's interests to find themselves in this situation."
The guide examines:
Culture: how supportive the organisation is.
Demands: the load placed on individuals and their capacity to handle it.
Control: the amount of say an individual has in how work is carried out.
Relationships: how people relate to one another in the workplace.
The guide -- "Tackling work-related stress: a manager's guide to improving and maintaining employee health and well-being" -- is available (£7.95) from bookshops and HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2WA.
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