Stress at Work - Health and Safety in the Workplace

The difficult economic climate can not only impact budgets and sales targets but additional increase the stress levels in the workplace. Last year 435,000 people suffered with stress and 9.8 million business days were lost through work-related stress.

Work is usually great for people if it’s well managed, however it can also be a great source of pressure. You will find there’s a difference between pressure and stress. Pressure can be good and motivating factor, and is generally important in work. It can benefit us accomplish our targets and perform much better. Stress occurs when this pressure becomes extreme. Stress is a normal reaction to too much pressure.

Having a well managed approach to educate and encourage Health and Safety is essential to the ongoing success of your business. By doing every effort to avoid work-related stress you will notices many advantages, such as:

• Employees feel more committed at work and motivated
• Increased morale in the office
• Lower staff turnover – fewer employees leaving due to happy work environment
• Reduce costs of recruitment, sick pay and overtime
• Fewer accidents and injuries
• Improved work quality
• Better employee understanding and tolerance of fellow workers experiencing problems

Have you got steps in place to deal with work related stress in your organisation?

The main element to dealing with work-related stress is to present your employees with crucial information and guidance – this can be achieved through E-Learning.

Safety Media’s Stress Awareness E-Learning course has been made to make your employees alert of the potential risks work-related stress can cause. The course recognises the impact of stress, how to deal with it and how to identify hazards. The course is ideal for every member of your business to increase awareness of what causes work-related stress and help reduce the ill effects.

The CPD certified course will take between 20-30 minutes to finish and concludes with a risk checklist and self test to determine your employees understanding. The answers of the risk checklist will provide your training supervisor with a complete risk analysis of every employee and will emphasise areas where changed are necessary to reduce the risk of work-related stress.

Safety Media’s E-Learning course is an affordable solution for your business. Along with a collection of over 50 CPD certified health and safety training programs, you can customise a training programme to meet your requirements. The E-Learning system has a complete Learning Management System helping you to train, monitor and evaluate all activity within one main reporting system.

If you have less than 50 workers, then have a look at our SME E-Learning solution. With prices starting from only £20.00 per person, per course you will receive the benefits of our E-Learning system but on a ‘pay as you go’ basis.

Learn more about E-Learning from Safety Media by going to www.SafetyLearning.co.uk or call 0845 345 1703 to talk about your health and safety needs.