Work Stress

How to avoid the Stress of being conned

Posted on 18/08/2008. Filed under: Tips for Success, Work Stress |

What do you do when someone cons or screws you over?
Aside from following a legal route and naming and shaming, in my experience nothing is the best course of action, as the people screwing you over are pro’s and they can do it again and again while a novice like yourself is unskilled in the [...]

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Stress Management for Dentists

Posted on 19/07/2008. Filed under: Stress and health, Work Stress |

I once read that suicide amongst dentists was the highest of any group of workers in the UK. I don’t know if this is still the case or not but it is a pretty shocking statistic.
An excellent free pdf document for dentists sufferring from stress can be found here:http://jada.ada.org/cgi/reprint/135/6/788.pdf
Home Page Stress Relief 191http://www.stress-relief-4u.blogspot.com

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Stress Management for NHS employees

Posted on 19/07/2008. Filed under: Work Stress |

According to the NHSemployers practice website
“Stress is believed to account for over 30 per cent of sickness absence in the NHS, costing the service £300-400 million per year. The Healthcare Commission’s 2007 staff survey found that 33 per cent of staff questioned said they had felt unwell because of work-related stress over the past 12 [...]

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How to create a Stress Free workplace

Posted on 19/07/2008. Filed under: Work Stress |

Stress is a major problem now for employers so they are getting ever more creative in their bid to create a more stress free environment for their employee’s. It seems to me they’d do well to read an old book I read years ago called ‘The Social Psychology of Industry’ which explains in details what [...]

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Work related stress and what you can do about it! Know your rights.

Posted on 18/07/2008. Filed under: Work Stress |

According to an article posted at channel 4.com here:http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/stress/saw_law.html
Claiming work related stress as a cause for ill health is a ‘legal minefield’.
The article says:
“One difficulty is that there is no specific law governing stress at work. Companies have a ‘duty of care’ under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure people are [...]

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