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Why tackle Work-related stress
'The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them.' - HSE
To combat sickness absence
- Work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health.
- Each case of stress-related ill health leads to an average of 30.2 working days lost.
- A total of 13.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2006/7.
To benefit your business
As well as reducing sickness absence costs to an organisation, tackling stress can have a positive effect on:
- Employee commitment to work;
- Staff performance and productivity;
- Staff turnover or intention to leave;
- Staff recruitment and retention;
- Customer satisfaction; and
- Organisational image and reputation
To comply with the law
Employers have duties:
- Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to assess the risk of stress-related ill health arising from work activities; and
- Under the Hea lth and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to take measures to control that risk.