Work Organisation & Stress: Systematic Problem Approaches for Employers, Managers and Trade Union Representatives 29/05/2008
This
booklet provides practical advice on how to deal with work stress. It is intended that employers, managers and trade union representatives use this booklet as part of an initiative to educate on the management of work stress. Discussed are the nature of stress at work, the causes and effects of
stress, as well as prevention strategies and risk assessment and management methods. Also discussed are the role of the organizational culture in this process and the resources to be drawn upon for managing work stress.
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Preparation
Health for Life Project, Harry Lawson Court - Pilot 29/05/2008
The aim of the Harry Lawson project is to evaluate, develop and sustain a health promotion framework, which assists older people to improve their independence, health and wellbeing. The project builds on the evidence that Sheltered Housing Schemes and Extra Care housing supports the independence, health and wellbeing of older people, through providing services such Community Support Officers, on call systems, additional extra care provision, social involvement and communal facilities.
Settings: Residence for Older People
MHP Steps: Preparation
Research on Work-Related Stress 29/05/2008
The Report, commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, considers early and contemporary scientific studies on the nature of stress at work, on its effects on health and on the way in which such knowledge is being applied in attempts to manage this problem
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Preparation
Assessing Quality of Life in Specialist Housing and Residential Care - A Workbook for Housing Providers 29/05/2008
The workbook is intended to be used by specialist housing and care providers. It contains the tested research instruments along with instructions on how to use them and get the most out of them. The measures contained in the workbook will help specialist housing and care providers to systematically assess how far a particular housing or residential setting contributes to the quality of life of people living there and to go on to improve matters based on clear evidence that follows a ‘joined-up’ approach.
Settings: Residence for Older People
MHP Steps: Implementation |
Preparation |
Follow Up |
Needs Analysis
European Methodology for Workplace Health Promotion 29/05/2008
The methodology describes a 7-phase model to implement workplace health promotion.
1. Getting started
2. Marketing
3. Needs analysis
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
7. Consolidation
Each phase is described in terms of a set of activities, priorities, typical problems and their resolution and a set of tools to support these activities. The methodology can be
used by anyone who wants to implement any form of WHP including mental health promotion.
The tool was developed in the mid-1990s. The most recent
version has been developed by NIGZ Division Work & Health. No formal evaluation of the tool has been carried out as yet, though feedback from users indicates that the tool has been found to be extremely useful.
The methodology tool is available in English, Dutch and Spanish. In Ireland the tool has been used on more than 10 occasions, though many more
copies of the tool are in circulation. The tool has also been used in Spain and widely in the Netherlands.
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Implementation |
Preparation |
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Needs Analysis
Work Positive Questionnaire 29/05/2008
Work Positive is a comprehensive risk management process that incorporates a risk assessment covering the major causal factors associated with workplace stress. It was originally developed by Health Scotland and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA, Ireland) to help organisations identify the potential causes of stress at work in line with requirements under the requirement to prevent accidents and illness at work under Irish health and safety legislation.
Work Positive was launched in 2002 and a revised edition again in May 2005 and is the only state sponsored stress audit tool of its kind available across Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. It reflects the HSA‘s prevention approach and emphasis on the risk assessment process and HSENI‘s development of Management Standards, against which organisations can measure their performance in managing the main causal factors for workplace stress and put in place procedures and system changes as required, to improve organisational culture to promote well-being.
The package consists of an audit tool for stress at work (questionnaire) and a set of instructions on how to develop a comprehensive approach to workplace stress.
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Implementation
A Mentally Healthy Workforce – It’s Good for Business 29/05/2008
The Partnership provides some insight into the question of how a mentally unhealthy workplace can be changed to a healthy one. After giving background information on mental illnesses and cost effectiveness of treatments for companies a three step approach is suggested: 1. Evaluation of your current programs, 2. Construction of your program, 3. Strenghtening of your program.
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Preparation
Quality Criteria and Success Factors of Workplace Health Promotion 29/05/2008
This tool consists of two main elements – a specification of quality criteria for the establishment of workplace health promotion programmes and a self-assessment questionnaire for workplaces to assess the extent to which they measure up to these quality criteria. Developed by the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion, a network extending to 30 countries, it represents an official statement about how quality workplace health promotion in Europe should look.
The quality criteria and questionnaire cover the following issues:
• WHP and corporate policy;
• Human resources and work organisation;
• WHP planning;
• Social responsibility;
• WHP implementation;
• WHP results.
The 27 item questionnaire provides a scoring system which organisations can use for benchmarking purposes and as a basis for improving their own WHP practice.
This tool is aimed at larger enterprises, i.e. those with more than 200 employees. Versions are also available for small enterprises and for Public Administrations.
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Implementation |
Preparation |
Needs Analysis
Healthy Working Lives Award Programme 29/05/2008
This tool is an award programme developed by the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives for workplaces. It offers a 3 level award scheme (Gold, Silver and Bronze), whereby workplaces can have their WHP practices assessed according to objective criteria. Various elements of the tool explain the award scheme, offer advice on the kinds of WHP activities that qualify for the three levels of the award and help prepare workplaces for undertaking an audit of their WHP activities.
Settings: Workplace
MHP Steps: Follow Up