25th August 2000

Work-Related Stress

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) estimate that some 5 million workers in the UK suffer from high levels of work-related stress. In recent years, there have been a number of successful high profile cases of employer's liability claims for work-related stress. The Health & Safety Commission (HSC) has announced that it is establishing a programme of work to tackle occupational stress through a range of actions, including the development of standards of good management practice. This follows several years of initiatives and research which have concluded that work-related stress is:

• a serious problem
  
  
• a health and safety issue
  
  
• amenable in part to health and safety legislation

As there are currently no clear, agreed standards of management practice for stress control that could form the basis of regulatory assessment and action, the HSC has asked the HSE to develop such standards.

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