I've organized 2 events in Hartlepool, Teesside, one on Resilience, the other on Managing Stress Risks at Work.
Both events take place at Hartlepool College on Thursday 8th Nov. My thanks to Hartlepool Borough Council and particularly to Steven Carter for all his help in getting these events set up. Thanks also to Hartlepool College for hosting the events. The Reslience Roadshow looks at psychological research into resilience and introduces tools found to be effective for individuals and organisations, particularly from the field of positive psychology. The Managing Stress Risks at Work event discusses the assessment and management of stress risks at work. We look at a range of frameworks and tools including HSE’s Management Standards and alternative (equivalent) approaches. Organisational, team and individual tools are all discussed. We explore ways that organisations can meet their legal obligations while minimising costs. We also clarify the links between the Management Standards and new development interventions such as the Stress Management Competencies. Hope you can make one or both of these events!
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Over the last couple of weeks, I've agreed to run a couple of Stress Management Competencies Roadshows in Teesside, one in Hartlepool and one in Redcar.
This has put me in touch with two excellent and committed workplace health improvement people in Teesside, Steven Carter and Richie Andrew, who are doing great work locally to prevent and reduce stress and to promote healthy workplaces in general. A good example is South Tees NHS' How Healthy Is Your Business website. It's great to see this kind of regional investment in workplace health promotion. I've noticed that compared to Scotland, and more recently, Wales, who have been prioritising and investing heavily in workplace health promotion, the situation in England is very patchy. Some areas such as the North East and South West appear to being doing a lot of good work and other areas little if anything. Why there should be such stark regional variations is a bit of mystery, as the arguments about the value of prevention have surely long since been won. Certainly where stress and mental well-being are concerned, prevention is hugely more cost-effective than 'cure'. |
Alan Bradshaw
Business Psychologist, Alan Bradshaw, is a specialist in the fields of stress management and the management of wellbeing at work. Archives
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