LEGAL ASPECTS OF STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
Risk assessment is a statutory obligation under Health and Safety law. Stress should be seen in the same way as any other health hazard. Therefore employers should be assessing stress risks in some logical and coherent way. The risk assessment should be suitable and sufficient (see http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/ standards/equivalence.htm) in order to do what’s reasonably practicable to prevent harm to employee health and wellbeing.
It’s also an employer's duty to identify foreseeable risks to employee health. Conducting a Business Stress Risk Review not only helps identify foreseeable risks, it also demonstrates to HSE that you have done so.
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