How should I go about doing a stress risk assessement?

The HSE publishes advice on how to do stress risk assessments, but a brief outline is set out below. There are links to more information and to the HSE website elsewhere in this section.

Preparation

• Get commitment from your organisation.
• Select a pilot group.

First pass

• Define the current state of the organisation against the management standards.
• Feed back results to staff and others.

Second pass

• Define problem areas in more detail.

Consultation

• Consult with employees to confirm the nature of the problem(s) and agree what action to take.

Taking action

• Put in place ways of dealing with the problems - these are called ‘interventions’.

Review

• Review the results of the project.
• Deal with individual issues that have arisen.