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01 April 2025

HSE: Stress Awareness Month

HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELLBEING

April is Stress Awareness Month and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has put together some tips and webinars on managing stress in the workplace. 

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Five simple steps

Complete the five steps of HSE's Working Minds campaign over the course of April to help to prevent stress and support good mental health of your workers:

  1. Reach out and have conversations
  2. Recognise the signs and causes of stress
  3. Respond to any risks identified by agreeing action points
  4. Reflect on the actions taken – have things improved?
  5. Make it routine to check back in on how things are going.

Preventing work-related stress, depression and anxiety is a legal duty, it’s good for business and it’s the right thing to do.

By being proactive, you can improve productivity, reduce sickness absence and help retain valued workers.

The Working Minds learning resource helps you understand your legal duties, causes of work-related stress and gives practical advice to employers on how to minimise the impact of stress on workers and your organisation.

Register for free and get step-by-step advice, tools and templates.

Work-related stress and the law 

No matter whether you’re a small business or a large corporation, the law requires all employers to prevent work-related stress to support good mental health in the workplace.

The need for employers to protect workers from work-related stress, depression and anxiety falls under the provision in sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Watch the webinar

Earlier this year, HSE held a webinar for businesses in Wales on managing workplace stress and mental health, which is now available to watch on demand. 

Stress experts from HSE and Healthy Working Wales joined together to discuss work-related stress, explain legal requirements and share resources.   

Watch the webinar now to learn how to support your employees and meet your legal obligations: 

Webinar: stress and mental health at work – what Welsh businesses need to know
Watch a version of the webinar with Welsh language subtitles on YouTube.

You can also see the full Working Minds/HSE YouTube playlist here.

Source: Online

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