Stress guides

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published new guidance for small firms on preventing work-related stress. Work-related stress: a short guide uses a question-and-answer format and explains what stress is and what causes it; employers' legal duties; and things small firms can do to prevent work-related stress.

The HSE has revised its leaflet Tackling work-related stress - a guide for employees following criticism by public services union UNISON.

Other recent publications on stress by the HSE include:

* Tackling work-related stress: a manager's guide to improving and maintaining employee health and well-being is aimed at larger organisations (£7.95);

* Mental well-being in the workplace: a resource pack for management training and development (update of 1998 edition) (£25.00); and

* Change in manufacturing: how to manage stress-related risks by P.R.Jackson and S.K.Parker looks at stress arising from processes like lean production (£15.00).

These can be ordered online at www.hsebooks.co.uk or are available from HSE Books, tel: 01787 881165.