Tag Archive: stress

Stress Awareness Month

Posted 9th April 2024 at 10:02 am

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), via their Working Minds campaign, has declared April Stress Awareness Month.   Work-related stress is an important consideration for businesses since all employers have a legal duty to prevent work related stress to support good mental health in the workplace. Clearly it is beneficial for employees when businesses make efforts to manage and reduce work-related stress, but employers can benefit too. A reduction in work-related stress amongst the workforce means the employer is less likely to come across issues such as reduced productivity, repeated sickness absence, and poor staff retention. Clearly it is beneficial... Read more

Coping with stress at work

Posted 21st June 2019 at 8:25 am

We all feel ‘stressed’ at one time or another in our lives, but how can we tackle this to ensure that our work and our personal lives don’t suffer? It’s all very well to say that we should ‘avoid’ stress, but this is easier said than done, especially for business owners, whose source of stress may well be their own business! So assuming that we don’t want to pack it all in and get a less stressful job, what can we do to manage periods of stress?   Take control of the situation It’s no good just burying your head... Read more