Consultation - Stress Management Standards

This consultation closed on the 27th August 2004

• Summary or responses and final report on the consultation

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) set out a programme of work in 2000 to tackle work-related stress.HSE has developed standards of good management practice - a voluntary approach to tackling a major cause of sickness absence.

This consultation gives you a real opportunity to make sure the solutions are practicable and effective in your workplace. It is a great opportunity for managers and employees to provide views on the standards and tell us how we might improve them before their launch at the end of the year.

• Get involved and have your say ...respond online

HSE's approach to tackling workplace stress

The following videos will give you an idea about our approach to tackling stress. The short clips show, real people talking about what stress means to them, three case studies in different settings and Professor Cary Cooper (Lancaster University management School) discusses stress and how to identify problems.

Finally, Elizabeth Gyngell (HSE Stress Programme Manager) outlines HSE's policy approach and explains why HSE needs your help.

• Real People's opinions on what stress means to them (for modem users)
• Real People's opinions on what stress means to them (for broad-band users)

• Case Study - School Staffroom (for modem users)
• Case Study - School Staffroom (for broad-band users)

• Case Study - Call Centre (for modem users)
• Case Study - Call Centre (for broad-band users)

• Case Study - Doctor's Surgery (for modem users)
• Case Study - Doctor's Surgery (for broad-band users)

• Professor Cary Cooper's view (for modem users)
• Professor Cary Cooper's view (for broad-band users)

• You can do something about it - Professor Cary Cooper (for modem users)
• You can do something about it - Professor Cary Cooper (for broad-band users)

• HSE's policy and approach (for modem users)
• HSE's policy and approach (for broad-band users)

• Why HSE needs your help to tackle workplace stress (for modem users)
• Why HSE needs your help to tackle workplace stress (for broad-band users)

• The Management Standards (for modem users) [400kb]
• The Management Standards (for broad-band users) [2.5mb]

• Work related stress site
  This site explains what HSE is doing to address the issue of stress at work, and provide access to a range of information, resources and further points of contact.