Stress toolkit

Webinar: tackling stress in the workplace

Breakfast briefings:

A series of webinars for UCU reps on health and safety issues. You can catch up with the whole series here.

Downloadable guidance

See also:
It's your time - UCU's workload campaign

• Stress toolkit [315kb] - the UCU stress toolkit provides the resources to help branch/LA officers to tackle stress in the workplace
• UCU: The growing epidemic: work-related stress in post-16 education, Nov 11 [362kb]
• Dealing with individual stress cases [186kb] - advises branches on supporting individuals, using health and safety and other legal rights, and collective campaigns on stress and the causes of stress.
• Stressed? What you can do about it - information for UCU members [164kb] - guides members through stress issues and the initial steps to take.
• Protecting staff from stress induced by work: UCU guidance on adopting a safe working practice approach [174kb]
• Model risk assessment [141kb]
• Hours monitoring form [164kb] - provides a systematic approach to monitoring working hours.
• Hours monitoring form explanatory notes [160kb]
• Model stress questionaire [145kb] can be used to help branches gather information on stress levels in the institution to present to management.
• Too cold or too warm to work comfortably: what should you do? [146kb]

Advicelines

• UCU health and safety adviceline
  Branch/LA officers and safety reps who need further advice on the issue of work-related stress at their institution can contact the health and safety advice line.
  More information on health and safety advice line...
• Education Support
  In addition to speaking to their UCU rep, members who need counselling, support, financial assistance and more can contact Education Support'.
  More information from Education Support
• Personal injury
  If you think you have a personal injury claim (including workplace stress) you can email UCU at injuredatwork@ucu.org.uk and one of our advisers will contact you to obtain the relevant information before making the referral to one of our panel firms.
  Find more information here.

Agreements

• Guidance on work-related stress in FE (England) [439kb]

Other resources

• Further education staff and prison educators suffer above-average stress, Dec 08
• Stress levels in higher education way above recommended levels, Dec 08
• Tackling work related stress in education - HSE newsletter [129kb]
• Example individual risk assessment template, HSE NI [203kb]
• HSE - Management standards for work-related stress
• Stress and mental health at work - a guide for trade union reps, LRD, Oct 16 - an excellent introduction to stress at work which can be purchased from the Labour Research Department website.