Course Overview

This course is intended to equip managers with the awareness to recognise when excess pressure is affecting their staff. Against a background of current legislation and case law, it will identify a range of actions that can be taken to ensure a manager is pro-active in preventing pressure developing into work induced stress.

Course Description

The course starts by looking at lifestyle (work/leisure) balance.

It then examinies the difference between pressure and stress.

The course then looks at the implications of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974, particularly the Duty of Care, on line managers and how it is enforced within Scotland.

The next session examines case law in relation to work-induced stress and, importantly, legal guidance resulting from court decisions.

Delegates then look at how the legal guidance can be built into their management responsibilities.

The course then moves on to examining models for managing out stress. These primarily involve Risk Assessment but pays due regard ot the evolution of job content over a period of time.

Finally the course offers a model stress management policy together with comprehensive guidance on recognising the early signs of stress.

This Course Costs £70 per person.