HSE Stress Management Standards not working?

Since the inception in 2004 of the HSE’s Management Standards for tackling work related stress, they have monitored the change in the mental health and work related stress incidents. In their 2008 report, Psychosocial working conditions in Britain in 2008 the HSE have noted that there has been no significant change in the psychosocial working [...]

Working hours increasing?

A recent survey by Friends Provident, Britain Under Stress published earlier this month, indicates that 25% of the national workforce is expecting to work longer hours over the next 6 months, this is despite the fact that nearly two thirds of respondents reported feeling more stressed, run down and prone to illness. 11% of responses [...]

Union’s Safety reps report high workplace stress

The TUC’s biennial survey of safety representatives has reported today, 26th October, and shows that stress is the most frequently identified hazard in most workplaces. Three in five (60%) of safety representatives identified overwork or stress as a concern, similar to the previous survey and higher than in earlier surveys.

Key findings

Stress is cited in more [...]

HSE Stress Management Standards Tools update

HSE have announced that they will update their Management Standards Analysis tool on 5th November 2008. The main improvement in the new version is the option to benchmark against either data drawn from organisations in both the private and public sector, or the current data drawn from the Psychosocial Working Conditions survey.

As usual, [...]

HSE Psychosocial Working Conditions report, 2008

The Health and Safety Executive have released their report into Psychosocial Working Conditions report which takes information from an series of annual surveys on working conditions started in 2004. HSE have identified:

Demand Control Managerial Support Peer Support Role Relationships Change

as working conditions which they aim to improve, and these surveys are part of the monitoring process of these psychosocial conditions, which [...]