The Burnt Chef project publishes stress guide
The Burnt Chef Project has published a new Work Related Stress Guide, designed to offer insight to employers and industry leaders on how they can start to strategically tackle stress within the workplace.
In 2020/21, stress, depression and anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health cases. The primary factors cited by respondents as the cause for such issues were workload pressures, including tight deadlines and too much responsibility with a lack of managerial support.
Work-related stress is an acute and/or ongoing state of exhaustion that leads to physical, mental or emotional exhaustion, preventing people from functioning safely and within normal boundaries. Work-related stress affects a person's health, increases the chance of workplace injuries occurring, and reduces performance and productivity within the workplace.
"Our industry is facing more pressures than ever before, yet we're not always equipped to deal with the issues this may bring to individuals within our team. We've developed this publication to assist employers and persons with duties under Occupational Health and Safety laws to comply with those laws in relation to work-related stress in the workplace," says Kris Hall, CEO of The Burnt Chef Project.
"With work-related stress affecting such a high proportion of our team's wellbeing, it's time to put the resources in place to support our team's wellbeing and arm our managers with the tools they need to help their staff thrive, not just survive," he adds.
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