Managing The Risk Of Workplace Stress

This book takes a risk management approach to stress evaluation in the workplace. It provides practical guidelines for the audit, assessment and mitigation of workplace stressors.

Working in a stressful environment not only increases the risk of physical illness or distress, but also increases the likelihood of workplace accidents. While legislation provides some guidelines for risk assessment of physical hazards, there remains limited guidance on the risks of psychosocial hazards, such as occupational stress.;This book takes the risk management approach to stress evaluation in the workplace, offering practical guidelines for the audit, assessment and mitigation of workplace stressors. Based on both research and case-studies, it provides a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical information for students and practitioners alike. Review: Cooper and Clarke have taken a wonderfully crosscutting and highly important approach to workplace stress by bringing to bear a risk management framework. This new and exciting innovation will be helpful to researchers and executives alike in successfully managing the risks of workplace stress.James Campbell Quick, Center for Research on Organizational and Managerial Excellence (CROME), The University of Texas at Arlington. This excellent book covers the key issues involved in managing the risk of workplace stress. Not only does it take a comprehensive approach, it is well referenced. A book I would recommend for practitioners, researchers and students working in this field. Professor Stephen Palmer PhD, City University, London and Director of the Centre for Stress Management. Impressively authored by acknowledged experts in the fields of occupational stress and safety risk management, this excellent book adopts a risk management framework to consider essential aspects of workplace stress. This refreshing approach should appeal to a wide range of professionals and practitioners in the search for solutions to perennial problems of stress at work. Ian Glendon, Griffith University, Australia..