| apsleyeducation.com © 2011 • Privacy Policy • Terms of Use |
Apsleyeducation can help your business combat unreported stress absence by training your section / department managers to identify the signs and symptoms experienced and yet not always recognized by the sufferer, of stress related problems. We do not train your managers in Medically diagnosis, that’s for the employees own G.P. to determine; what we do, do, is highlight the simplest of techniques and practices that every manager should employ to prevent and deter such a condition from occurring in the first place! Your business like many others should have in place policies for dealing with employee stress, however, if your managers cannot recognize the stress potential of any given situation or a buildup of stressors then your policies cannot be implemented in time. This course entitled, ‘Managing Stress-Stress Management ‘ covers many aspects including:- · Pin-pointing stressors: · Identify causes of stress · What your obligations are towards those you manage: · Find and use appropriate stress management techniques: and finally · What about stress at home; do management need to consider? |
|
‘Managing Stress-Stress Management
In the UK HSE statistics indicate a doubling of reported clinical stress cases between 1990 and 1999. Working days lost per annum appear to have been about 6.5 million in the mid-1990s’, but rose to over 13 million by 2001. Greater awareness of the stress ailment in reporting no doubt accounts for some of this variance, but one thing's for sure: the number of people suffering from work-related stress isn't reducing. Stress is caused by various factors - not all of which are work-related of course, (which incidentally doesn't reduce the employer's obligation to protect against the causes of stress at work). Causes of stress - known as stressors - are in two categories: external stressors and internal stressors. Extract from the Health and Safety Executives report on stress in the workplace: |