April is Stress Awareness Month and HSE has a range of resources and information to help employers protect workers from stress at work.
The law requires all employers to prevent work-related stress to support good mental health in the workplace.
The need to protect your workers from work-related stress, depression and anxiety falls under the provision sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
HSE’s work-related stress webpages offers various tools and support to help businesses. These include:
- using stress talking toolkits to help structure your conversations
- downloading a stress risk assessment template to develop your processes for preventing or managing stressors
HSE’s Working Minds campaign encourages employers to support workers’ mental health using 5 simple steps. Sign-up to the Working Minds monthly ebulletin for access to all the latest campaign news, updates and resources.
