Transcript Management Standards for Work-related Stress

Health and Safety
Executive
Management Standards for
Work-related Stress
Scott O’Brien
Policy Advisor, HSE
Stress Priority Programme Team
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Working within HSC’s strategy
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Sensible management of risk
Offering advice and support
Targeting resources on the biggest risks
Communicating the strategy effectively
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Where will this take us?
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Towards self-regulating businesses who invest in health and
safety as an marker of positive organisational performance
Towards a workplace culture where the business, moral and
ethical cases for health and safety is recognised and
accepted
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Where is the stress
programme now?
HSE recognises that
organisations will
need help and
support to do stress
risk assessments –
but they should
now be doing them
Step 1: Inform
Step 2: Educate
Step 3: Enforce
Step 4: Self-regulate
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Where to start
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The Management Standards for work-related stress were
launched on 3 November 2004
They will help organisations to undertake a risk assessment
They combine with HSE’s existing guidance:
• Real solutions, real people; and
• Tackling work-related stress: a managers’ guide
To form the Management Standards Approach
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The Management Standards
Approach
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The approach is not about eliminating stress entirely. Rather
it encourage organisations to take pragmatic steps towards
improving their workplace
The Management Standards approach is targeted principally
at medium to large employers
Employee engagement is critical to the success of the
Management Standards approach
Consultation with the workforce and their representatives is
the key to developing effective solutions
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The Management Standards
- Outline
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The Management Standards look at six areas of work:
Demands, Control, Support, Relationships, Role and Change
Each contains simple statements about what would be
happening in an organisation achieving the Standards
The Standards help organisations to prioritise areas of
highest risk
They are not designed to tackle individual responses or
stress outside the workplace
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The Management Standards
- Process
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Gaining organisational buy in: senior managers, trades
unions, line managers and staff
An initial indicator tool survey across the workforce
Follow up focus groups to verify the results of the indicator
tool and develop solutions
Implementation/intervention phase
Review and results
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Setting achieveable goals
Top 20%
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The current UK picture as
reported by employees in
the OMNIBUS Survey
(ONS) in February/March
2004
Harm >
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Achieving success
Top 20%
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Organisations are
encouraged to move
towards the reported
success of the top twenty
percent of employers as
reported by their employees
(2004)
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The Management Standards
- Next steps
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Wider implementation – a logical approach
Targeting resources to support key sectors
Providing information and guidance to all employers
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Coming up…
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New guidance for SMEs – a revised Work Positive pack
developed in association with Health Scotland (HEBS)
Upgraded online analysis tools
Proactive support and guidance from HSE and partners
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Any questions?
www.hse.gov.uk/stress
scott.o’[email protected]
Scott O’Brien
Policy Advisor, HSE
Stress Priority Programme Team