According to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) latest figures, half of all reported ill-health is related to stress, depression or anxiety. That’s an estimated 776,000 cases, with each person taking an average of 21.1 days off work.
Does This Apply to You?
Irrespective of the size of organisation or sector, the law requires all employers prevent work-related stress and support mental health in the workplace.
That means including stress within the risk assessment process and acting upon it!
Learn How to Prevent Stress in Five Steps
The HSE has developed some useful tools, templates and information that will allow you to proactively prevent stress and support good mental health at work.
- Reach out and have conversations – Stress Talking Toolkits are designed to help managers talk to employees, as part of their overall approach to preventing and managing work-related stress.
- Recognise the signs and causes of stress – the Stress Indicator Tool is a free online survey, designed to gather data anonymously from employees and help identify areas to improve to prevent and manage work-related stress.
- Respond to any risks you’ve identified.
- Reflect on actions you’ve agreed and taken.
- Routine – make this part of your everyday.
You can also:
- Download the HSE’s Working Minds Campaign Calendar 2025.
- Download a Risk Assessment Template and see examples.
Workplace Wellbeing Service
Our Workplace Wellbeing Service focuses on helping you identify and improve the mental, physical and emotional wellbeing of your employees.
Whether your employees are dealing with workplace stress or having troubles at home, our comprehensive service is designed to help support them throughout this difficult period in their life.
Our service includes:
- Unlimited 24-hour counselling helpline
- Citizens Advice based information service
- 24-hour telephone critical incident response
- Access to online resources via a wellbeing portal
- Up to 8 counselling sessions per person
- Weekly online webinars
- Additional support for line managers
We also provide the following supplementary wellbeing training courses:
- Mental health awareness
- Stress essentials
- Managing mental health in the workplace
- Stress awareness for employees
- Stress awareness for managers
For further information, please contact Kelly Ladd on 02920 853731 or email her at kelly.ladd@thomas-carroll.co.uk.
