Health and Safety Executive’s Post

A lot of companies talk the talk but fail to walk the walk. It's not a tick box exercise, it's a way of working and helping each other.

HSE have all the right tools in place. However, the H&S and HR communities have made this such a trendy gloss subject and its NOT! My god, mental wellbeing is mentioned so much now and is so fashionable, however, we are not tackling it in any new ways. I see no innovation just talk and hot air from the same old committee members who frankly have no idea. This is not to say, I don't fully recognise the wonderful work, by many organisations, and charities. We need to move from Compliance to Care.... see Clive Lloyd's great book! However, if we rely on HSE improvements to lead by enforcement alone, what does that say for UK business? Its a national disgrace. Mental Health/Illness is an ethical but also pragmatic issue and we need to link it with the NHS and appropriate medical intervention, early on. Keeping people in work supported has to be the way. This will kill the stigma. Time for change!

In Companies, in several Administrations, as also the Politics, the Executives, H. managers, responsibles, in France too, need to learn yes..., you're right... TO LEARN - on RISKS of Stress and dangerous Human Relations, on their effects by LACK of Listening collaborators, on quick Over-Stress occurences, on moral effects of comportements with verbal agressions, surprising injustices, ... (impacting so quickly, so dangerously mental health, by traumatism occurences in so hard contexts...) because blessing and injustified comportments can be moral effractions, mental and psychic effractions (sometimes ... with some -so unhuman- 'words' profered directly on a victim, generaly when meeting room's door have been just closed by such agressive author(s)). Congratulations for your present GREAT 'LINK' too teaching for a large public, permitting also Executives and Management TO LEARN - on HOW TO ACT and - on HOW TO quickly FIGHT strongly and really every DANGER, every forms of 'STRESS AT WORK' in & on their Teams => - to procure a concrete SAFETY - to preserve HEALTH for everybody in their perimeters of management and Responsabilities. #Voice_Of_Collaborators #Importance_of_Support_for_collaborators_victims #Trauma 👍 👂

Hatton v Sutherland [2002], established that everyday workplace pressures and stress are not necessarily actionable under health and safety laws, stating stress itself is neither a psychiatric injury nor illness meeting the legal definition of ‘personal injury’ under HASAWA. Thus, under what ‘law’ is preventing work-place stress a legal’ responsibility and requirement?

Absolutely agree! Addressing work-related stress is crucial for fostering a healthy and productive work environment.

bp take note!