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View full libraryThis model stress risk assessment is used to support individuals or teams to identify and review pressures and consider if these are a source of stress. Action can then be taken to reduce the risks to performance and health.
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| Department: | |
| Assessment date: | |
| Assessed by: |
Role Definition
| Are you clear what is expected within role? | Yes | No |
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Do you understand your duties and responsibilities? If no, agree duties and responsibilities expected ensuring excessive and unreasonable demands are not made |
Yes | No |
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Do you know how to go about getting your job done? If no, provide regular clear feedback on performance |
Yes | No |
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Do you know the goals and objectives for the department? If no, clarify goals and objectives for the individual and department – ensuring no ambiguity |
Yes | No |
Control
| Can you set your own work speed? | Yes | No |
| Can you decide when to take a break? | Yes | No |
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Do you have any say in how you do and plan your work? If no, where practicable, enable staff to exert autonomy within role, encourage delegation and empowerment of others, encourage training to support delegation (to individual and team). |
Yes | No |
Work Pressures - High
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Are your deadlines within role unachievable? If yes, offer support in prioritising tasks and cut out unnecessary work and bureaucracy, assist in the scheduling of work to ensure adequate and appropriate resources. |
Yes | No |
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Are you required to work long hours? If yes, avoid encouraging staff to work long hours, take |
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Explore the Risk assessment templates toolkitAn Individual Stress Risk Assessment form is a document used by employers to assess the risk of work-related stress on individual employees. It is a tool that helps employers identify and evaluate factors in the workplace that may cause stress to an individual employee. The form typically includes questions that allow the employer to gather information about an employee's work environment, workload, responsibilities, and other factors that may contribute to stress.
The aim of the form is to identify the level of risk an individual employee is exposed to and to suggest measures to manage and reduce the risk of work-related stress. This may include changes to the employee's workload, changes to the work environment or culture, and support or interventions to help the employee manage stress.
An Individual Stress Risk Assessment form can be used as part of an employer's legal obligation to assess the risk of work-related stress, as required by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. It can also be used as a tool to support an employer's duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010.
Yes. This template has been designed for organisations of all sizes, including small businesses, charities and growing employers. It follows UK employment law best practice and can be adapted to suit your organisation.
Our templates are developed with UK employment legislation, Acas guidance and HR best practice in mind and are reviewed and updated as relevant requirements change. However, every employment situation is different, so the template should be adapted to the circumstances and checked against the employee's contract and your organisation's procedures before use.
Yes, we highlight the areas of the document that you need to update with your own details, and where you need to make decisions to suit your situation. This saves you time and ensures that you meet best practice.
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If you're looking for broader support, we also offer toolkits and library bundles that include the Individual stress risk assessment form template, along with other HR templates and policies for fully managing your situation. These may be more cost-effective if you need deeper advice.
AI can produce a document quickly, but effective HR documentation needs to be more than well-written words. It needs to reflect relevant UK employment law, HR best practice, practical considerations and the circumstances in which it will be used. These resources have been professionally developed around that wider HR context, drawing on extensive practical experience, rather than simply generating a generic document from a prompt.
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