Overview

The increasing incidence of stress-related absence among employees has led to a greater need for companies to train staff about the causes of stress, how workplace issues can cause stress and give staff practical guidance about how stress can be reduced or avoided through workplace policies that encourage employees to take responsibility for their health.

This course covers:

• An introduction to Stress
• Evaluating Stress
• Personal Stress Management

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Course outline

PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO STRESS

• What is stress?
• Factors contributing to stress
• HSE definition of stress
• The difference between pressure and stress
• When pressure becomes stress
• The impact of stress on an organisation
• Causes of workplace stress
• The six stressors as defined by the HSE

PART 2: APPLYING BEST PRACTICES

• Business realities
• Managing stress reduction
• Demands
• Control
• Support
• Change
• Role
• Relationship
• Scenarios

PART 3: LIFESTYLE AND LIFE SKILLS

• Physical symptoms of stress
• Lifestyle: small changes big impact
• Diet
• Exercise
• Sleep pattern
• Recreation and enjoyment
• Life Skills
• Positive thinking
• Time Management
• Assertiveness Training

The course concludes with a short assessment to confirm understanding, the results of which are automatically saved to a database when used with the Audit+ Management System for further analysis.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out stress management training to branch locations, divisions and departments with a single installation
• Reduce training costs by removing the need for expensive centralised instructor-led stress management training
• Allow employees to set their own stress management training rosters thereby reducing the impact training may have on their day-to-day work schedules
• Effectively train employees in stress management without them ever leaving their workstation
• Provide essential stress management training in digestible modules that are proven to help improve understanding and retention levels
• Employees may complete the training over a period of time using automated browser-independent bookmarking
• Set global passmark specific to your organisation
• Customise aspects of the program to reflect your organisation's brand and policies on stress-related issues
• Provide one-click access to useful organisation-specific contact information and references from within the training
• Automatically save test results to a database for analysis and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law (when used with the Audit+ Management System)
• Print-out training certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each training session

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Regulatory requirements

According to the Management of Health and Safety At Work Regulations 1999, Section 13:

1. Every employer shall, in entrusting tasks to his employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and safety.
2. Every employer shall ensure that his employees are provided with adequate health and safety training -
   1. on their being recruited into the employer's undertaking; and
   2. on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of -
      1. their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the employer's undertaking,
      2. the introduction of new work equipment into or a change respecting work equipment already in use within the employer's undertaking,
      3. the introduction of new technology into the employer's undertaking, or
      4. the introduction of a new system of work into or a change respecting a system of work already in use within the employer's undertaking.
3. The training referred to in paragraph (2) shall -
   1. be repeated periodically where appropriate;
   2. be adapted to take account of any new or changed risks to the health and safety of the employees concerned; and
   3. take place during working hours.

This training program helps your organisation fulfil this legal obligation. Training records may be maintained for years and are available for interrogation at anytime from any PC on your network when the program is used with the Audit+ Records Management System.

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Screenshots

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Training program start screen.

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Server and browser requirements

This training program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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