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As has already been mentioned, undertaking an employee stress assessment when an employee is diagnosed as off work with stress, shows you have undertaken, in-part, reasonably practicable measures to identify the stress hazard within your workplace. There is a lot more to managing stress in the workplace. Clicking on ‘risk assessment’ above will take you to our site which deals with managing  workplace stress and stress risk assessments.

If an excessively stressed employee is off work and considering pursuing a claim for damages you would be well advised to offer them the support of a Professional Accredited Stress Manager. If they refuse, you have shown that you are a ‘caring employer’. If they accept, then you have also shown that you are a ‘caring employer’ plus you have a report on the nature of their stress so you can, as appropriate, start to minimise the future risk of workplace stress.

This is a win win situation. Even if you are still liable for damages your case will be greatly improved by this demonstration of being a ‘caring employer’.

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