Course Overview

Stress Essentials is a 30 minute course designed to encourage employees to work positively. The course identifies the causes of stress and offers solutions to managing it more effectively.

The course takes a balanced approach to stress and discusses not just the possible work related issues, but also domestic ones that can lead to people finding themselves stressed.

It offers practical advice on measures employees can take to help them cope better with stressful situations and discusses the importance a good diet and regular exercise has in maintaining a healthy balanced lifestyle.

Target Audience

Anyone working in today's busy office environment.

Course Objectives

In this training course employees will learn:

• What stress is
• The causes of stress
• How to better manage stress
• What to do if experiencing stress in the workplace

Benefit to your Organisation

• Immediately communicate your organisation's stress policy to employees
• Clear audit trail - evidence completion and understanding

Stress Risk Assessment

The EssentialSkillz stress risk assessment allows organisations to conduct surveys in line with the HSE's stress management standards. The information gathered from this process is stored within O-LAS, just like any other risk assessment, but with one crucial difference. Given the sensitive nature of the exercise, all the data captured is completely confidential.

Where an organisation has already organised and implemented 'stress busting'  strategies and activities, the risk assessment can be easily customised to measure stress levels both pre and post management intervention, in order to gauge the effectiveness of these efforts.