July 25, 2001—The UK Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) comprehensive new guide is designed to help managers tackle stress in the workplace. Stress-related illness is responsible for the loss of 6.5 million working days each year in the UK, costing employers around 370 million and society as a whole as much as 3.75 billion. An estimated half a million people in Britain are suffering from work-related stress, anxiety, or depression at levels that make them ill.
Published June 2001, Tackling work-related stress: a managers’ guide to improving and maintaining employee health and well-being is for managers in organizations employing over 50 people. The guide outlines employers’ statutory obligations and provides a step-by-step approach to help identify who is at risk, how to prevent problems from occurring.
This publication can be ordered online from HSE Books, or by calling HSE Books at 01787-881165.
