Online Stress Awareness Training for Managers

Overview

There is a legal requirement placed on employers to ensure that stress in the workplace is properly managed and that a risk assessment is undertaken. Managers are most likely to undertake the risk assessment and manage stress in the workplace and therefore need to be properly equipped to do so.

A recent survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) on absence management found that respondents cited management style as one of the top three causes of work-related stress.

About 1 in 5 people report they either find their work very or extremely stressful and over half a million people believe that work-related stress has caused them illness.

On average, a case of stress-related ill-health leads to 29 working days being lost and in one recent year a total of 13.4 million working days were lost to either stress, depression or anxiety.

Stress Awareness for Managers aims to provide managers with a better understanding of the causes of stress, the positive actions that can be taken to manage stress and their responsibilities as a manager.

• Developed by Health & Safety Professionals
• High Quality Training Experience
• Comprehensively covers HSE/CIPD ‘Management Competencies'
• Fully Online Course, Instant Access
• High Quality Certificate posted the next working day

Who Should Attend?

The course has been developed for managers and supervisors at all levels in the organisation to ensure they have the necessary underpinning knowledge to be able to manage stress successfully in their area of responsibility.

The ‘Stress Awareness for Managers' course has been developed using the latest HSE and CIPD guidance relating to the topic of stress and the stress management standards. It also helps with the outline recommendations set out in the NICE ‘Promoting mental wellbeing through productive and healthy working conditions: guidance for employers'.

Key Learning Outcomes

Stress Awareness for Managers aims to provide managers with a better understanding of the causes of stress, the positive actions that can be taken to manage stress and their responsibilities as a manager. At the end of the training candidates will be able to:

• Describe the difference between stress and pressure
• Appreciate the common causes of stress in the workplace and also causes outside of work
• Recognise the common signs and symptoms of stress in themselves and others
• Appreciate that stress can affect people in three main ways
• Recognise the actions and strategies that can be applied to manage stress
• Appreciate that there are six headings in the stress management standards which should form part of a stress risk assessment
• Appreciate that line managers have a primary role in effective stress management
• Describe the management competencies outlined in the CIPD and HSE joint publication

Content

Stress Awareness for Managers training can help managers and supervisors to recognise the common causes of stress. It also informs them of the positive actions they can take to better manage stress, by using a risk assessment approach. The training uses a best practice approach and the latest guidance concerning management competencies and behaviours.

The course contains the following sections:

• Introduction
• Understanding stress
• Identifying stress factors and signs
• Coping with stress
• Understanding employer and employee responsibilities
• Managing stress and risk assessments
• Stress management competencies
• Case study based on legal test case
• Assessment

Assessment

The online assessment is taken on completion of the training material. You will be asked 25 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 75%. The answers are marked automatically so that you'll instantly know whether you passed. If you don't pass don't worry! You can take the test as many times as you need with no extra charge.

Duration

Approximately 45 minutes to complete the course in full. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session. There is no time limit for completion.

Certification

On successful completion of the course you will be sent a quality assured certificate through the post the next working day. This can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit.

Group Discounts

10% discount on 10+ courses
20% discount on 50+ courses