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Stress in the Workplace

Workplace stress is a problem for all organisations, both large and small. According to current statistics, nearly 40% of all sickness absence across industry is due to mental ill-health. If the sickness absence rates for other stress-related illnesses are also included, the number of lost working days is even higher. This is an unacceptable and unnecessary cost to business and industry.

Coping with stress can produce a wide range symptoms:

• High blood pressure
• Ulcers
• Heart-disease
• Mental health problems (such as depression and anxiety)
• Loss of sleep
• Headaches, back and neck pain
• Consumption of too much alcohol

Effects of stress:

• Time off or performing badly at work
• Work performance
• Violence in the workplace
• Alcohol and drugs in the workplace
• Accident in the workplace

Do you seen the signs within your organisation?
 

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