Overview
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This conference took place on 1st December 2004. If you would like to order copies of the speaker's slide presentations, you can still do this using the booking page here.
******************************************** Preparing Employers for the New HSE Management Standards
How should employers respond to the business and legal implications of stress at work? Research by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) shows that over 13 million working days are lost due to stress - at a cost to UK businesses of an estimated £3.8 billion p.a. Work-related stress is now a serious strategic issue for all UK employers - large and small. By November 2004, the HSE will have published its new mandatory Stress Management Standards.
Yet effective stress management strategies can enable employers to effectively respond to the tide of legal, regulatory and financial challenges posed by stress in the workplace. This important and timely COHPA conference will offer a thorough update of the regulatory issues, position stress in the context of Occupational Health, and will set out a series of practical solutions and strategies now available to employers.
Topics covered included:
- Government policy - Overview of the Government's broader stress strategy;
- New HSE Management Standards - Legal and practical implications of these new regulations;
- Costs of Stress - Financial, productivity and human costs of stress in the workplace;
- Legal Update - House of Lords ruling, update on Hatton, what's next on the legal horizon?
- Dispute Resolution Regulations - Analysis of the new regulations effective from 1st October 2004;
- Employment Tribunals - How to avoid them, how to manage stress-related tribunals;
- Risk Assessments - Measuring and auditing stress risks for organisations and individuals;
- Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) - The benefits and role of counselling and advice services;
- Absence Management - Stress-related absence - tackling the sick-note epidemic.
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COHPA, the Commercial Occupational Health Providers Association, was formed to promote the occupational health industry, to fulfil the need for Government representation amongst commercial providers, and to address the many issues facing the occupational health industry today.
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