This guide from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work offers a practical five-step approach to managing psychosocial risks and musculoskeletal disorders. Designed for micro and small businesses, it provides clear explanations and exercises to create lasting workplace improvements that benefit both employees and employers.
This tool by Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority offers industry-specific templates for identifying work environment risks, such as interpersonal interactions and work organisation. While the tool itself is in Norwegian, you can use translation tools to adapt the templates to create a customised action plan.
This webpage by Worksafe.qld.gov.au provides a framework for employers to build a robust policy for minimising work-related risks associated with alcohol and other drugs. This framework integrates seamlessly with existing strategies for managing all health and chronic diseases within the organisation.
This webpage by Health and Safety Executive UK highlights the significance of fatigue in workplace safety, particularly for shift workers who may experience reduced performance due to prolonged exertion or inadequate rest. You also find some helpful resources to manage fatigue risks and shift work,
Practical guidance by Safe Work Australia for persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to manage fatigue to ensure it does not contribute to health and safety risks in the workplace.
This e-guide from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is tailored for employers and employees in small enterprises who want to start systematically addressing psychosocial risks in the workplace. It provides clear explanations of work-related stress and psychosocial risks, their impact on businesses and workers, and practical steps for prevention and management.
This material by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health helps you to understand how chronic mental stress is defined and how to recognise hazards for it at your work. This tool provides workplace leaders, managers and supervisors strategies for reducing the risks in their workplaces to protect both employers and employees.
This brochure from the Swedish Work Environment Authority provides step-by-step advise for workplace leaders on how to systematically address high workloads and stress in workplaces.
Plot your level of wellbeing in eight areas that influence your emotional wellbeing. The Wellbeing Wheel by Nuffield Health allows you to see the areas of wellbeing that you are happiest with, and those that you are least happy with. It also provides some sample activities that you could carry out.
QPSNordic is a common Nordic questionnaire for psychological and social factors in working life, developed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. It has been designed for use as an instrument for studying psychological, social and organisational working conditions: 1) In organisation development and interventions, 2) in research of association between work and health and 3) in documentation of changes in working conditions.
This article from Work Safe Victoria (Australia) gives guidance to employers for identifying and controlling the risks of work-related stress from high and low job demands, two of the most common psychosocial hazards. It provides risk control measures for employers to manage job demands, focusing on job design, work environment and working conditions.