EMPLOYEE STRESS
Is your company vulnerable to a claim for damages due to stress?
Is your company vulnerable to an enforcement notice from the HSE?
If an employee is off work due to diagnosed stress, then you should accept that stress has been identified as a potential work-related health hazard within you workplace. You must undertake a stress risk assessment as you may have to prove that you have taken reasonably practicable measures to minimise the health risk from stress within your workplace.
IMPORTANT
Have you undertaken a Stress Risk Assessment in accordance with The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations?
All employers with five or more employee have a legal duty to undertake stress risk assessments. Consider this statement from the Health and Safety Executive:
“An organisation that undertook a risk assessment based on the approach in HSE's current guidance (HSG218 Tackling work-related stress) and identified major problems/issues, would be unlikely to be subject to enforcement action by HSE provided it could demonstrate it was taking steps to address those problems/issues.”
Three major employers have had enforcement notices placed on them.
Our professionally qualified consultants can guide you through the whole risk assessment process.
Have you established that your stressed employee s are in fact suffering from stress and this stress is in part work-related?
We provide a professional stress assessment service undertaken by professional Stress Managers holding British University qualifications in Personal Development, Mentoring and Stress Management. You will receive a report on the nature of the stress and its probable source, e.g. home, work.
Have you offered help to the employee to enable them to return to work?
If can greatly improve your case if you can show that you are a caring employer. We can provide professional Stress Management support to help your employee overcome their stress and often return to full-time employment.
Are you aware of your organisation’s degree of vulnerability to potential claim and / or litigation due to this employee’s stressed condition?
In addition to assessing the nature of the employee’s stress we can relate this to their working conditions within their workplace, policies, etc. And provide you with a report indication the potential vulnerability of your organisation to claim and / or litigation.