Workplace stress now competes with musculoskeletal disorders as the most common cause of long-term sickness absence in almost every sector of employment.
Dr Sayeed Khan, chief medical adviser at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, will share some personal insights on stress in the workplace from his 25 years in occupation health at the IOSH conference today at ExCel London.
Dr Khan says he has seen the evolution of stress in the workplace from a minor issue – as a GP in the 1980s, he and all the GPs he knew never wrote a sick note for stress – to the situation today.
During his presentation at the conference, Dr Khan plans to look at how to recognise, manage and prevent or reduce stress at a personal level, in employees, and at an organisational level.
He will also present some of his top tips, including: do you have a ‘stability zone’? What are the six main stressors for employees? Have your line managers read The Games People Play? What are the best sources of information for organisations to use apart from the HSE?
Dr Sayeed Khan will be presenting in track D in the IOSH conference from 15.10.
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
