Stress-related illness may cost UK industry as much as £12 billion a year1. For the individual employee, the personal cost may be even higher.

Employers have a legal duty of care to safeguard the health and safety of employees. A stress management programme designed in partnership with Atos Healthcare is a cost-effective way of fulfilling that obligation. Together, we can identify the causes of stress and help prevent it occurring. And if people do have trouble coping, we can help you to support them.

Preventing stress

The first step in your stress management strategy is to carry out risk assessments.
Atos Healthcare has a tried and tested methodology that involves working with you to identify and understand the sources of stress in the workplace and create or improve your stress management policies.

Anticipating stress

A blend of effective stress awareness and stress management courses help employees recognise the causes, consequences and cures for stress. More specialised training for managers enables them to identify stress among their staff and take prompt remedial action. All training is tailored to your organisation.

Coping with stress

Even when you have made efforts to minimise the likelihood of stress, some people may still find the pressures exceed their ability to cope. Counselling helps them find ways to deal with stress – whether the source is at work or at home.

To find out more about dealing with stress, contact Atos Healthcare.

1 Source: "Stress Prevention in the Workplace - Assessing the Costs and Benefits to Organisation" by Prof. Cary L Cooper and Dr. Susan Cartwright (both of Manchester School of Management, UMIST); Prof. Paula Liukkonen, Department of Economics, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Published by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Quoted by CBI. See: http://www.workstress.net/costs.htm