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HR consultancy can help your company to develop wide-ranging health and safety policies and in particular draft up a robust stress policy to identify and tackle workplace stressors. Workplace stress requires management to be fully trained to identify staff that may be prone to stress and to look out for the tell-tale signs. Health and safety courses can be found to help the management team recognise this area of health and safety and give them the confidence to deal with it. Developing health and safety policy Your human resources team need to put in place comprehensive guidelines for managing stress in the work place. Here are some tips about what should be included as a minimum: 1. The introduction should include a company statement that outlines the commitment of the business to monitor and limit stress in the work-place. 2. Include a definition of stress. The Health and Safety Executive definition states that stress is the "adverse reaction people experience when excessive pressures or types of demand are placed on them" 3. Identify the types of work-place stressors found in your company. 4. Provide a risk assessment for stress and ensure it is regularly reviewed 5. Set out a system for recording risk from stress and managing stress situations. 6. Ensure ongoing health and safety training on stress is provided to all employees 7. Put in place support mechanisms such as confidential counselling 8. Provide staff with guidelines on how to deal with stress and information on how to raise their concerns at work 9. List the responsibilities of the different employee groups towards workplace stress The Health and Safety Executive advises that managers should closely monitor workloads to avoid overloading staff, and to also ensure that they take their full holiday entitlement. At Northgate Arinso we offer advice on human resources, employment law and health and safety policy. The Article is written by www.northgatearinsoemployerservices.com providing Hr Consultancy and Health And Safety Consultants Services. Visit http://www.northgatearinsoemployerservices.com for more information on www.northgatearinsoemployerservices.com Products & Services___________________________Copyright information This article is free for reproduction but must be reproduced in its entirety, including live links & this copyright statement must be included. Visit www.northgatearinsoemployerservices.com for more services!
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