2. Clive Bonny health and safety
risks

3. Regulatory challenges
Define harm
Surface perceptions
Establish cause and effect
Distinguish between minor/serious harm
Identify greatest exposures
Intervene with impact and effect

4. ‘Must-haves’ A sound methodology Robust and evidence based
Straightforward to understand
Straightforward to adopt
Good targeting
Wider acknowledgement
Wide take-up

5. Sound methodology? Stressor - element of work design
Standard – the measure
What should be happening – descriptors of what good organisations might be doing

6. Employers at Risk Private company Directors Health service providers
Education bodies
Local authorities
Financial services

7. Legal The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (1974)
General duty: protect the health of their employees
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999)
Specific duties: assess risk, including risks to mental health

8. Conventional risk control hierarchy
Eliminate
Substitute
Minimise
Control at source
Personal protection

9. Enforcement process steps
Assess initial risk of ill health
Determine risk gap
Initial enforcement expectation
Dutyholder factors
Strategic factors
Enforcement conclusion

10. Work related Stress intervention options
Primary: tackle at source
Secondary: individuals trained to cope
Tertiary: eg counselling services

11. Primary Interventions
Eliminate or modify stressors to reduce their negative effect on individuals

12. Examples
Follow Management Standards
Redesign jobs
Clarify personal workplans
Prevent work overload
Flexible working arrangements
Commitment from senior managers
Improve communications
Increase participation

13. Secondary Interventions
Focus on raising awareness and equipping employees to cope with sources of stress / pressure

14. Examples
Promote healthy lifestyles
Help managers to recognise the impact of managerial styles on staff
Increase support from managers and co-workers
Help develop other skills to deal with stress eg assertiveness, problem solving skills

15. Tertiary Interventions
Treat the individual who is suffering from the effects of stress

16. Examples
Counselling services
Employee assistance programmes
Managing the return to work

17. Stress Priority Programme Development
AWARE
ENFORCE
Training for enforcers
Joint initiatives/case studies
Links to providers
SELF REGULATE
Continuous improvement
Sharing Best practice
DOING
NOT DOING
INFORM
Develop tools/approaches
Management standards
Web site
Joint initiatives
EDUCATE
Common agreements to:
Risk assessment approach
Terminology
Evidence
NOT AWARE

18. Enforcement outcomes
Define what compliance looks like
Select indicators for change
Monitor and measure improvement
Spread message
Reinforce
Review and repeat
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