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This month, remember - National Stress Awareness Day, New HSE statistics published and visit our new look stress website.

#######National Stress Awareness Day- 4th November#######

This year's International Stress Management Association campaign is focused on 'stressing the positives'. It is a good prompt for all employers to think about what they can do to prevent work related stress making people ill. One of the positive things employers can do is use The Management Standards to help them reduce work-related stress. HSE is again supporting the campaign

http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/stress-awareness-day.htm

#########New Statistics Available######

Labour Force Statistics for 2008/09 are now available on HSE website.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/research.htm

#######New look Stress Website######

The site has changed its look as part of a HSE wide update. The new look aims to make navigation easier and helps link related information through 'Resources' and 'See Also' sections on the right of each page.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/index.htm

######New leaflet######

A new free leaflet has been produced by HSE and our partners. The leaflet replaces INDG406 -'Tackling Stress: The Management Standards Approach' and Misc714 - 'Making the Management Standards Work'

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg430.pdf

####Preventing Work related Stress in Care Assistants and Home Carers ##

Care Assistants and Home Carers are a group that have been identified through statistical analysis as reporting higher than average prevalence of work-related stress. This project seeks to identify and publicise good practice from employers in preventing care assistants and others who work in the care sector being made ill by work-related stress. Good practice will involve the employer working together with employees and their representatives to look at the risk and introduce sensible solutions. If you know of any organisations who would be interested in sharing what they do to prevent work related stress in the social care sector please contact Tony.Almond@hse.gsi.gov.uk

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