Identify, Prevent and Manage Stress at Work
Work-related stress describes the physical, mental and emotional reactions of workers who perceive that their work demands exceed their abilities and/or their resources (such as time, help/support) to do the work. Working in stressful environment and with stress for a long time may lead to the mental illness like depression and anxiety. Also, it increases the level of absenteeism in an organisation. Therefore, the important of the workplace stress management is very essential. In this blog, i am trying to give ideas how to identify work place stress, different way to prevent them and key tips to balanced your stress at workplace by analysing different source found in the internet. Also, we will talk about South Australia’s work health and Safety(WHS) Laws which provide the information to secure the health and safety of workers and workplace.
Firstly, there are number of reasons that makes you more
stressful at work. Because of which you cannot concentrate on your work and it
also demotivate you from your roles and responsibilities. Which definitely not
good for your mental health as well as for an organisation. So it is vital to
identify what makes you feel more stress at work. Some of the things are listed
here.
·
Workload:
In most cases, work load is the one of the reason for being stress at work
which includes having not enough staff, your job responsibility is on high
demand so that you have to work over time etc.
·
Bullying: every
organization have certain policy to identify bullying with in their organization.
So it is important to identify them and proceed further for an action. Or you
can talk to people you trust, like friends or family.
·
Conflict with
a colleague: There are mainly two types of conflicts in a workplace. First is
that the ideas or decision not being same which is related to their job. Second
is that, two people not able to get along.
Likewise, some of the other reasons that creates stress
in workplace are
·
Discrimination
and harassment
·
Performance
management
·
Violence or
threats of violence
·
Exposure to
a traumatic incident or even
In the other hand, after identifying one
of the above reason, it is important to give them first priority and talk to the
respect person immediately for legal and general consultaion. In Australia, The
work health and safety regulations 2012 (SA) identify the control measures that
must be applied to specific work activities and hazardous. Safework.sa.gov.au. (2017). For any
help regarding the Work health and safety act you can call at 1300 365 255 in
Australia. Furthermore, it is important to raise workplace stressors and risks
you believe are, or could be affecting your mental health with a manager or
other person appropriate person at your workplace. For example, human resource
advisor, health and safety representative, union representative.
Lastly but the not the least, we should aware of all of
these activities at workplace and try to avoid any conflict before its taking a
big impact on our personal life. Some of the ideas how to handle workplace stress
includes:
Learn to plan your everyday work load
Recognise and accept your limits
Talk out your problems
Avoid unnecessary gossip
Learn to play sports
Decide to be positive
Love yourself more than anybody else
Exercise
Change your surroundings
Also
for an organisation, it is very important to take it seriously by eliminating
work stressor, help employees modify
perception and understanding of work stress, help employee cope with
consequences of stress and wellness programs.
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