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UK STRESS NETWORK
Enforcing the Stress Management Standards
David Snowball
HSE
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Regulatory challenges
• Define harm
• Surface perceptions
• Establish cause and effect
• Distinguish between minor/serious harm
• Identify greatest exposures
• Intervene with impact and effect
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‘Must-haves’
• A sound methodology
• Robust and evidence based
• Straightforward to understand
• Straightforward to adopt
• Good targeting
• Wider acknowledgement
• Wide take-up
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Sound methodology?
• Stressor - element of work design
• Standard – the measure
• What should be happening – descriptors of what good organisations might be doing
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Target sectors
• Health
• Education
• Local authorities
• Government
• Financial sector
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Legal
• The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (1974)
• General duty: protect the health of their employees
• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999)
• Specific duties: assess risk, including risks to mental health
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Conventional risk control hierarchy
• Eliminate
• Substitute
• Minimise
• Control at source
• Personal protection
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Enforcement process steps
• Assess initial risk of ill health
• Determine risk gap
• Initial enforcement expectation
• Dutyholder factors
• Strategic factors
• Enforcement conclusion
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WRS: intervention options
• Primary: tackle at source
• Secondary: individuals trained to cope
• Tertiary: eg counselling services
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Primary Interventions
• Eliminate or modify stressors to reduce their negative effect on individuals
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Examples
– Follow the Management Standards – Redesign jobs– Clarify personal workplans – Prevent work overload– Flexible working arrangements– Commitment from senior managers– Improve communications– Increase participation
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Secondary Interventions
• Focus on raising awareness and equipping employees to cope with sources of stress / pressure
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Examples
• Promote healthy lifestyles
• Help managers to recognise the impact of managerial styles on staff
• Increase support from managers and co-workers
• Help develop other skills to deal with stress eg assertiveness, problem solving skills
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Tertiary Interventions
• Treat the individual who is suffering from the effects of stress
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Examples
• Counselling services
• Employee assistance programmes
• Managing the return to work
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Stress Priority ProgrammeDevelopment
DOING
AWARE
NOT AWARE
NOT DOINGEDUCATECommon agreements to:Risk assessment approachTerminologyEvidence
INFORMDevelop tools/approachesManagement standardsWeb siteJoint initiatives
ENFORCETraining for enforcersJoint initiatives/case studiesLinks to providers
SELF REGULATEContinuous improvementSharing Best practice
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Enforcement outcomes
• Define what compliance looks like
• Select indicators for change
• Monitor and measure improvement
• Spread message
• Reinforce
• Review and repeat