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Do employers need to carry out a stress risk assessment?

The simple answer is YES. Work-related stress is a workplace health and safety risk, and employers have a legal duty to assess and manage it.

Who Should Be Involved in a Stress Risk Assessment?

A stress risk assessment should not be completed by one person working in isolation. The employer remains responsible, but the process should involve people who understand the organisation, the work being done and employees’ experience of it.

When Should a Stress Risk Assessment Be Reviewed?

A stress risk assessment should not be completed once and then forgotten. Workplaces change, so employers need to check that the assessment remains relevant and that agreed controls are working.

What Evidence Should Employers Keep for a Stress Risk Assessment?

Completing a stress risk assessment is only part of the process. Employers should keep a clear record of what informed the assessment, what was identified, what action was agreed and whether that action worked.

You Found a Stress Risk. What Next?

Identifying a possible cause of work-related stress is not the end of a stress risk assessment. It is the point where action should begin.

The Six HSE Management Standards

Discover how UK employers can effectively manage work-related stress using the HSE Management Standards framework.

A staff survey is not the whole stress risk assessment

Many employers run a stress or wellbeing survey and assume they have covered the issue.

But a survey on its own is not a stress risk assessment.

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