Health and Safety Work Executive Managemengemnt Standards for tackling work related stress. The process outlined in this document are not law, but following it can help you meet your legal duties. Work-related stress is a major cause of occupational ill health. That means sickness absence, high staff turnover and poor performance in your organisation. This advice will help you, your employees and their representatives manage the issue sensibly and minimise the impact of work-related stress on your business. In fact, it might help you improve business performance.

This advice will help you, your employees and their representatives manage the issue sensibly and minimise the impact of work-related stress on your business. In fact, it might help you improve business performance.The advice is aimed at anyone with responsibility for tackling work-related stress in your organisation. That might be the person who has responsibility for co-ordinating your stress risk assessment, human resources managers, health and safety officers, trade union representatives or line managers.

The process outlined here is not law, but following it can help you meet your legal duties. This advice does not replace HSE’s existing stress guidance documents - ‘Tackling Work-related Stress: A guide for employers’ (HSG218) and ‘Real Solutions, Real People’. It provides further practical information, advice and tools on how to assess the risks from work-related stress in your organisation.