April is Stress Awareness Month: HSE Shares Advice on Combating Stress in the Workplace

The Health and Safety Executive are sharing their advice on combating stress in the workplace in 5 simple steps:

Complete the 5 steps of HSE's Working Minds campaign over the course of April to help to prevent stress and support good mental health of your workers:

1. reach out and have conversations

2. recognise the signs and causes of stress

3. respond to any risks identified by agreeing action points

4. reflect on the actions taken – have things improved?

5. make it routine to check back in on how things are going

Take your business to the next level

Preventing work-related stress, depression and anxiety is a legal duty, it’s good for business and it’s the right thing to do.

By being proactive, you can improve productivity, reduce sickness absence and help retain valued workers.

Register for full online learning for step-by-step advice, tools and templates.

Work-related stress and the law

No matter whether you’re a small business or a large corporation, the law requires all employers to prevent work-related stress to support good mental health in the workplace.

The need for employers to protect workers from work-related stress, depression and anxiety falls under the provision in sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Find out more about work-related stress and the law. 

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