To coincide with European Health and Safety Week, the TUC has published new advice on managing stress at work for health and safety representatives – ‘Tackling Workplace Stress using the HSE Stress management Standards’. The TUC highlight the extent of the problem in the UK by utilising HSE figures for new cases of work-related stress and work days lost, i.e. stress leads to 11.3 million lost work days and accounts for 39% of all work-related illness. The guide provides a background to the problem of stress, outlines the HSE standards, states what H&S reps and employers should do and explains the process. While the guide is aimed at H&S representatives, it nevertheless represents good advice for employers in terms of risk assessment and implementing HSE standards, which classify the principles causes of work-related stress in to six key areas, as set out on pages 3 to 5 of the guide.

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