Advice for occupational safety and health specialists

The Agency provides access to a wide range of research on the effectiveness of different approaches to preventing and tackling work-related stress, to help those with a professional interest in the subject.
In particular, research has identified a number of factors as important in successful stress prevention interventions in the workplace. These include:

• adequate risk analysis;
• thorough planning and a step-wise approach;
• a combination of measures aimed at the organisation of work, and at workers themselves;
• solutions that are specific to individual workplaces;
• practitioners being experienced, and interventions being evidence-based;
• dialogue, partnership and workers’ involvement, and
• sustained prevention and the support of senior management.

The Agency also provides access to practical solutions and tools which you may find useful and employ at your workplace to reduce psychosocial risks and prevent stress.