H Klinkenberg & Associates - Employee Risk Management Consultants

Specialists in:  stress audit, stress risk assessment, risk minimisation, stress management, diversity audit, sickness, absenteeism, employee relations, training, workshops, coaching, learning, development and motivation.

H Klinkenberg & Associates - Employee Risk Management Consultants

Specialists in:  stress audit, stress risk assessment, risk minimisation, stress management, diversity audit, sickness, absenteeism, employee relations, training, workshops, coaching, learning, development and motivation.

Employee Risk Management & Motivation

Understanding Personal Responsibility

Employees have a responsibility to their employer to make reasonable efforts to manage their stress and to make their employer aware of stress issues that could affect their ability to work.

The Hatton Case introduced the employer defence of ‘foreseeability’ where employers cannot be expected to know that an employee is suffering from stress problems if those problems are not obvious of if the employer has not been informed of them.

This does not remove the employer’s responsibilities under The Management of Heath and Safety at Work Regulations to proactively undertake stress risk assessments, but it does mean that if an employer takes reasonable practicable measures to identify stress hazards, assess the risk and then minimise that risk they will, in most cases, be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of those regulations.

The Training Course

Learning outcomes:

Attendees will have a greater understanding of both pressure and stress in their lives, have strategies for preventing pressure becoming stress, have techniques for coping with unavoidable stress, feel more confident that they can remain in control in a stressful situation and understand how their stress can impact on those they work with.

Duration:

Half Day Course or One Day Course

Content:

Half Day      The difference between pressure and stress

                  The sources of personal stress

                  Methods for managing that personal stress

Full Day      As half day plus

                  Improving personal stress coping skills

                  How to avoid causing stress in the workplace

                  How to manage and cope with unavoidable stress

Venue:

The training course can be provided as an in-house course or at a local venue.

Cost:

Dependent on numbers, location, duration, etc.

Training courses start at just £25.00 per attendee, minimum number 10, plus expenses & venue costs.