Managing Stress and the Law
Stress has become the UK’s biggest cause of workplace absence. An increasing trend in employee-related litigation combined with legislation changes has led to a real need for employers to learn how to effectively manage stress in the workplace. Our programme helps participants to understand the psychology of stress, recognise the signs and symptoms and manage their teams in a way which reduces the risk of stress. We will also provide advice on facilitating effective re-entry into the workplace after stress-related absence - a key aspect of stress management.
Individual benefits:
- Know the warning signs and symptoms of stress
- Learn how to support stressed employees and mitigate fall-out
Organisational benefits:
- Reduce and eliminate stress in the workplace
- Ensure compliance with the law when dealing with stress
What the training covers:
- Identifying sources, signs and symptoms of stress in the workplace
- Impact of organisational culture and management style
- Change and stress
- Overview of legal elements of stress
- Handling safety sensitive roles and managing technology
- Dealing with stressed employees – preventing escalation
- Avoiding and dealing with bullying, harassment and discrimination
- Dealing with stressed employees – preventing escalation
- Long-term and short-term stress-related sickness absence – the psychological implications
- Return to work plans and strategies