HSE Links & Documents

These are from the HSE, the governmental organisation for Health & Safety. The Executive is the enforcer whilst the HSC is the regulator.

04 July 2006. Another research report from the HSE this time looking at the Lay conceptualisations of occupational disease, in other words, how the different types and causes of occupational illness are viewed by professionals and members of the lay public.

23 June 2006. HSE have released a research report Defining a case of work-related stress, it is 128 pages long. For a more detailed view visit the HSE website.

The Health & Safety Laboratory have published Bullying at work, a review of the literature. The reason this is published is because the HSE currently offers little guidance to organisations on what primary interventions should be considered to address bullying at work. The aim of this report is to review current publications and research in the area of bullying at work to identify gaps in current knowledge to help HSE plan future research.

30 May 2006. The HSE have issued a report on a Workplace Health and Safety Survey Programme of which stress is one of the problems mentioned

They have also published a report entitled Psychosocial Working Conditions in Great Britain in 2005 which has a section dealing with work related stress.

Their equivalent 2004 report can also be downloaded for purposes of comparison.

On 2 November 2005, the HSE and the ISMA hosted a major conference in London, entitled, Making the Management Standards Work. The aim of the conference was to mark National Stress Awareness Day 2005 and launch new HSE guidance on the subject of stress.

The first piece of new guidance is entitled Making the Management Standards Work: How to Apply the Standards in your Workplace. It has been written for the HSE by the ISMA, based on research taken from organisations attending workshops on how to use the HSE Management Standards for Work-related Stress. (The workshops were organised by ISMA in late 2004.)

A lengthy research report entitled, Attitudes, opinions and experiences of attendees at the ISMA UK stress workshops has been issued as a follow up to the conference.

Research reports, RR431, A Business Case for Management Standards for Stress and Ethnicity, work characteristics, stress and health have been published. The purpose of the second report is to investigate the prevalence of reported occupational stress and psychiatric disorder in Black Carribean, Asian and White workers and to understand the reasons for differences in occupational stress between ethnic groups.

The Management Standards for tackling work-related stress have been issued. You can read a copy on this site or go to the HSE site to view the relevant page. You will also find a valuable new advice leaflet for employees produced by ISMAUK.

The HSE has published the results of surveys of self-reported work-related ill health and various other data sources.

The is an an online discussion group on work-related stress and solutions for organisations. The " Stress Solutions Discussion Group" is for people to discuss approaches to tackling stress in the workplace but you will need to register with the site to enable you to express your views.

They have also created a page which contains links to all the stress research on their website, which should make life much easier for interested browsers.

There are also a couple of reports covering a number of practical suggestions used by different organisations and materials that can be adapted.