Managing Stress at Work

Course overview

This qualification is suited to anyone responsible for managing and reducing work-related stress within their organisation. This includes line managers, Human Resource employees, occupational health workers and health and safety professionals.

Element 1: Key Principles

• Understand common terms and the relationships between work-related stress, pressure, and mental health/mental illness

• Understand the prevalence and costs of stress and mental ill-health in the workplace

• Recognise the signs and effects of work-related stress

• Understand the responsibilities of employers to workers relating to work-related stress (including the role of health and safety, HR, Occupational Health, and line management)

Element 2: Identification of Risk

• Understand the causes of workplace stress

• Apply the HSE's Management Standards

Element 3: Implementing Interventions

• Develop practical options to address and reduce workplace stressors

• Develop practical options to manage effects of stress and its impact in the workplace

• Develop ways to continually improve the workplace

Course benefits

• Have confidence as your team will be trained in HSE’s current approach to managing and controlling stress at work.

• Ensure your organisation has valuable in-house expertise for recognising and managing the signs and effects of stress on your workers.

• Upskill your teams so they can assess workplace stress risks to the right standard and identify where external expertise is required to support your workers.