• Health & safety legislation
• Measuring stress
• The effects of stress on individuals
• How stress effects health
• Stress and work
• The long term effects of stress
• The physical signs of stress
• Coping strategies
• How to lower stress naturally

• How to compose a work healthy policy

Average time: 12 hours learning time to complete, spread over a period of 1 month.

Fee: £50 PER PERSON

This course is designed to develop a foundation level of knowledge that will equip the candidate with the skills necessary to control and manage workplace stress.

Stress often cannot be avoided but it can be controlled and learning how to manage stress is the key to whether it becomes friend or foe. More often than not it is our reaction to a stressful event that determines how it affects us, in other words by changing our response to it stress can become a positive rather than a negative experience.

This course provides an understanding of the causes and physiological effects of stress and details the techniques than can be used to manage these.

• To enable trainees to understand the causes of stress and how stressful situations arise.
• To enable trainees to recognise the effects of stressful situations on individuals.
• To enable trainees to understand how to measure stress in the workplace environment.
• To enable trainees to develop coping strategies for dealing with stress.
• To equip trainees with techniques for reducing the levels of stress naturally.
• To enable trainees to recognise stress as it affects co-workers.
• To equip trainees with the skills to compose a workplace health policy.
• To improve competence and reduce anxiety in trainees through knowledge.