Background;
There are many reasons for organisations assessing and tackling the causes of work-related stress. Including:
- Compliance with UK legislation and meet the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) requirements
- Reducing absenteeism – an estimated 13.5 million lost working days in Britain in 2007/08 due to stress (Labour Force Study 2007/08)
- Increasing productivity - £15.1 billion are estimated to be lost each year in the UK through reduced productivity at work (The Sainsbury Centre, 2007)
While there are many benefits for organisations to assessing stress, many companies find it difficult to make best use of the information such an assessment can provide.
The HSE provides help and support to organisations on conducting a stress risk assessment and have developed tools to assist this process (HSE Indicator Tool). The Keil Centre has considerable experience in using these tools and we have also developed tools of our own that add increased functionality and flexibility.
Our Approach
Our team of Chartered Psychologists are able to provide advice that is tailored to your organisation, based on best practice and tested by experience. The Keil Centre have delivered a variety of stress-related projects and can help support your organisation to:
- find the most appropriate means of assessing stress, wellbeing and engagement
- make best use of any data already gathered (for instance, by using the HSE Indicator Tool)
- train internal staff to deliver assessments
- contract out the use of our assessment tools (see StressTools® and TRA-CS) for internal use
- deliver workshops to identify actions
- deliver all aspects of a psychological health risk assessment on your behalf using methodologies that are suited to your organisation.
Our Tools