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22 March 2007. The HSE have issued an updated report RR553 - Management competencies for preventing and reducing stress at work. This is a 124 page report entitled
Management competencies for preventing and reducing stress at work
Identifying and developing the management behaviours necessary to implement the HSE Management Standards
If you visit the HSE website you can also see some extracts from the report
12 December 2006. Julie Hurst of the WorkLife Balance Centre informs us that a new article is available to view on their articles page along with telling us of other articles of interest.
- Public sector work life balance not a reality
- Most employers expect difficulty with new family rights
- Working late but getting little done
- Personal issues cause more stress than work
- Stress is biggest problem in UK workplaces
- Who's responsibility is stress in the public sector?
- Overworked, undersexed and in the office
11 November 2006. The HSC Health and Safety Statistics were released in a press brief and release on November 2nd. These statistics include the latest figures on stress, including numbers of cases, new cases and working days lost:
- 195 000 new cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety reported in the previous 12 months;
- Around half a million people (420 000) in Britain report work-related stress at a level they believe is making them ill;
- Each case of stress related ill health leads to an average of 30 days off work;
- A total of 10.5 million working days were lost in Britain in 2004/5 to work related stress.
The significant reduction in cases in 2005/6 is an encouraging sign following the levelling off of the previous year, though it is too early to be sure if this drop is a lasting trend.
The Management Standards were only launched 5 months ahead of the survey period and their effect was not anticipated to be immediate. However, for the last 5 years, HSE has been actively promoting a workable approach to this issue and the interest in the Management Standards during 2005/6 has been encouraging. HSE are currently proactively working in key sectors to encourage further adoption of the Management Standards approach.
The Health & safety statistics are obtainable here
05 November 2006. A letter from John Bamford which is, as he says, fairly self explanatory, but very important none the less.
This is self-explanatory - we need to put as much pressure on as many MP's as possible. If you think "police force" when considering the role of the HSE, then workers HSE must be the only area of supervision of criminal activity that is not "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime"!
Two major causes of workplace H&S crime are employer gross negligence and deliberate failure to observe statutory duties - read the reports of prosecutions cases taken to court. Yet still, in the event of a work-related death, the Government's current corprate killing bill has refused to include a section on the duties of individual directors/senior decision makers, and make it possible to pin the responsibility where it may truly lie.
The HSE has its problems, and many of its inspectors will tell what these are, but we should not let this, or any other Government get away with cutting the, already inadequate, resources that fund the only H&S police force we have. The constant media barrage of propaganda that trivialises H&S only helps this process, so that also needs to be challenged whenever possible.
Sorry to bang on - but please - write to your MP, get others to do so as well - a mate who is an MP tells me that if the average MP gets half-a-dozen letters on a subject from constituents, they think they have to treat it seriously and do something. If the Branch can do anything else - raise member awareness, write to the local/national press etc, please try to promote this activity.
A sample letter to your MP can be found using this link
A more detailed TUC briefing document can be found here
30 October 2006. A new website is due to be launched in Wales on Workers Memorial Day 2007. It is the Hazards Campaign Wales. We at Workstress.net wish them all success.
23 October 2006. A new link to the Age Positive website. Focus on potential, skills and ability...not age.
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