The Stress Away Programme Features and Benefits

Comply with the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Stress is now an injury in law and can be categorised as a disability.

The HSE guidelines state that employers have a 'duty of care' for employees experiencing stress-related conditions. The Stress Away Programme provides client organisations with a complete and HSE compliant programme of recovery. This is backed up with an unmatched programme of support by qualified occupational psychologists and counsellors, who have the experience of treating over 90,000 clients from around the world.

The Stress Away programme provides a proven method of prevention and recovery from stress and stress related conditions for your employees.

This will:

Comply with HSE guidelines
Minimise the risk of litigation
Provide a complete programme of recovery

Avoid Litigation - Stress is an injury in law

Stress is now an injury in law. Litigation in such cases is becoming more commonplace and substantial claims can be lodged against employers if stress is found to have been caused or exacerbated by the sufferer's work or workplace. Our programme tackles the stress condition before it has the opportunity to cause maximum damage.

By making our programme available at the onset of the formation of a stress or anxiety related condition, we can halt development of the more intrusive or damaging features of those conditions. Our aim is to eliminate stress and anxiety related absenteeism by providing a powerful 'front line' defence for your people and your organisation.

Decrease Absenteeism and Increase Employee Retention

Statistics issued by The Health & Safety Executive state that:

Work related stress accounts for over a third of all new instances of ill health and each case of stress-related ill health leads to an average of 30.2 work days lost.

13.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2006/7 at a cost of over £11.5 billion in 2002 (more recent figures not yet available).

Reducing absenteeism means reducing the costs to your organisation of the money, time and resources devoted to addressing the effects of stress-related absenteeism. In addition our 'back to work' policy, encouraging and supporting sufferers back into the workplace, means increased productivity, employee morale, reliability, employee retention and much more.

Help employees get back to work - fast

We have a strict 'back to work' policy which provides the individual with the structure, reassurance and support they need to make a swift and lasting recovery. Absenteeism fuels the sufferer's anxieties through self-consciousness, lack of structure and the loss of a daily focus, personal challenges and fulfillment. Moreover, the loss of activity due to absenteeism causes the sufferer to become introverted and obsessive about the symptoms they experience.

Remove the cause of stress and anxiety

The changes necessary in recovery are encouraged and supported through a targeted and supportive programme of learning which addresses the 'root cause' of these conditions. Traditionally, stress and anxiety conditions have been addressed by treating the symptoms with medication, or the 'catalyst' for the initial stress or anxiety with psychotherapeutic techniques.

The Stress Away Programme addresses the subconscious mechanism which causes and perpetuates these conditions directly. This provides fast and permanent elimination of the conditions and all of the symptoms they present such as anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, obsessions and depressive thoughts.

Increase staff productivity, performance & morale

By providing...

... accessible, confidential and seamless support when it is needed.

... reassurance and access to an unmatched mine of knowledge with the world's most experienced specialists.

... world renowned programmes for stress & anxiety elimination.

... workshops across a wide range of workplace issues.

... support for managers experiencing stress in the workplace or requiring information or advice about their employees.

The speed of recovery can be very fast indeed. Most clients experience an immediate sense of empowering relief that they have never experienced before. This burst of positive energy can be all it takes to project the sufferer into a very short recovery, some take a little longer.

However, all complying clients reach their ultimate goal; total and permanent stress and anxiety elimination. In addition, they then have all the tools they will require to continue through life, suitably equipped to ensure that they never experience inappropriate stress or anxiety again.

Improve Employee/Management Relations

Your employees will feel supported and happy to be working for a company which is prepared to demonstrate commitment to their health and well-being.

Staff recruitment and retention is increased and your company's image and reputation is improved.

After visiting our workshops, your managers will be better equipped to take a more proactive approach to dealing with employee stress issues.

Overall communication will be improved, creating a much more informed and therefore contented workforce.

Minimise/Eliminate Managerial Intervention

Increasing productivity also means allowing your managerial staff to maximise their time.

Stress Away removes the necessity for on-going managerial intervention. Our team will support, inform and guide your employees on an individual basis, allowing your managers to continue with their job role without disruption.

Stress Away provide on site manager workshops on a range of work practice topics, including team building, stress management and bullying.