A resource of information for Hybrid workers.
This resource has been created to help you familiarise yourself with the equipment in your shared working environment, how to complete a Hybrid Working Self-Assessment form and information on your SWAE equipment booking.
This course will give you a brief introduction to health and safety at work, advise you of what you should expect fom your Host employer and provides you with tips for keeping safe in the workplace.
The Health & Safety Executive makes it clear that employers have a legal duty to protect employees from stress at work by completing risk assessments and acting on them. Stress Risk Assessments are a tool to help identify manage and mitigate/control the risks associated with workplace stress. Undertaking a stress risk assessment will involve a manager, an individual or a team, it will give the manager an opportunity to look closely at the identified stressors within the HSE six areas of work design which can affect stress levels to rise. The manager will then be able to implement targeted interventions to control the risks to the individual as far as reasonably practicable.
This 3-part training has been created to ensure that managers are able to support their teams in managing stress and using stress risk assessments when needed. To complete the training, you must watch all three videos and mark them as completed. Each video is approximately 15 mins long, and you do not have to complete it in one sitting.
Part 1 covers the Stress Management Policy and your responsibility as a manager to support your team and to prevent and manage workplace stress.
Part 2 focuses on how to complete the assessment.
Part 3 addresses frequently asked questions and the additional resources available to you and your team.
You can download the stress risk assessment template from the Staff Directory. If you have any questions, please email ohquery@essex.ac.uk.
