NEWS
HSE INVITES HEALTH
& SAFETY LEADERS
TO THE STRESS
SUMMIT 2017
The Health & Safety Executive’s Stress
Summit 2017 is set to take place in
London on Thursday 16 March.
H
alf a million workers across Britain are suffering
from work-related stress, depression or anxiety.
Forty-two percent of self-reported cases were new
in 2015/16 (Labour Force Survey). In every workplace, the
employer has a duty to ensure the health, safety and
welfare of the people they employ. The ethos of health and
safety legislation is prevention – stopping a person being
injured or made unwell by their work makes better financial
sense for the employer.
Estimates of how much work-related stress costs Great
Britain each year range from £3billion to £100billion. Basic
costs of the 11.7 million working days lost may account for
the lower estimate.
You can see how the bill starts to mount up with the
price of lost production (including reduced productivity).
Workers may experience physical symptoms such
as difficulty concentrating, there’s the cost of staff
replacements and then medical treatment for sufferers etc.
There is a hierarchy of steps for tackling risks that can’t
be avoided. They need to be assessed and dealt with
initially by ‘combating the risks at source’. The Health
& Safety Executive (HSE) developed the Management
Standards (MS) approach which allows an employer to
assess the risk to employees from work-related stress.
If you would like to hear more about what you can do to
prevent work-related stress and make a difference for your
employees, you can sign up to The Stress Summit 2017.
DATE AND LOCATION
The summit will be held on Thursday 16 March 2017 at:
Queen Elizabeth II Centre
Broad Sanctuary
London
SW1P 3EE
ABOUT THE EVENT
In 2015/16 stress, anxiety and depression resulted in
11.7 million working days lost at an estimated social and
economic cost of £5.2 billion. Not only is work related
stress damaging to health and wellbeing, it can impact
productivity, competitiveness and profitability. Managing
stress risk factors strengthens your business and protects
your workforce.
Hosted by the Health and Safety Executive, The Stress
Summit brings together keynote speakers and industry
leading lights to show how an organisational approach to
preventing known stressors in the working environment
can deliver tangible benefits.
You’ll learn how to successfully implement HSE’s
Management Standards, prevent stress and tackle your
current problems, thus helping to improve the physical
and mental health of your employees and reduce sickness
absence.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
• Hear keynote speakers, including Professor Sir
Cary Cooper, explain the importance of getting
stress management right.
• Take away expert advice, knowledge and experience
from internationally renowned business experts.
• Be among the first to hear about the latest developments
in HSE’s practical guidance, support, tools and techniques
BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW
Early Bird: £350 up until Friday 6 January 2017 (After 6
January the standard registration is £425).
You can book your place at this event by visiting
www.hsl.gov.uk/stress-summit
For more information about the HSE’s Management Standards approach plus free tools to help you assess the risk and causes of organisational stress, go to the
work-related stress pages on HSE’s website: www.hse.gov.uk/index.htm
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