Risk Assessment

The risk assessment process gives staff the opportunity to report the extent to which known causes of stress are present in their work and/or work environment. The most commonly reported risks are then discussed in more detail with staff to evaluate the level of risk and explore potential risk reduction measures/interventions.

Data gathering

This risk assessment process can be time consuming. We have extensive experience of managing this risk assessment including communication, survey design and analysis. The process usually involves a survey of staff. There are a number of standard risk assessment tools that can be used for this purpose or we can help you develop your own:

• HSE indicator tool
• Work Positive stress risk assessment
• A bespoke risk assessment
  • designing a new survey tailored to the needs of your organisation
  • mapping existing management information that you already collect (e.g. through an employee opinion survey) against the HSE Management Standards.

These surveys can be completed:

• on hard copy (returned directly to us by post in pre-paid envelopes)
• on-line (via an email to all staff with a link to the external survey stored on a secure database)
• as part of an ‘event’, eg staff health day, away day, team meeting etc

Responses are strictly confidential. We can provide this information to you for you to analyse or we can conduct the analysis for you.

Analysis

We can analyse the information for you, prioritising the areas for further exploration and developing briefing materials or ‘summary outcomes’ for communication to staff. For larger organisations the responses can be categorised by role, department, location etc. This allows risks specific to particular groups to be identified and local action plans developed.