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 coping toolbox by Mental Health America is a collection of skills, techniques, items, and other suggestions that a person can turn to as soon as they start to feel anxious or distressed
This toolkit from the Health and Safety Executive UK is designed to support managers and supervisors in engaging with their team members as part of a proactive approach to preventing and managing work-related stress. It is tailored specifically for smaller organisations so they can gather data on causes of stress.
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 one hour-long webinar by Anxiety and Depression Association of America presents tools and techniques to get (and stay) motivated, manage stress and burnout.
Fact sheet by the National Institute of Mental Health US to learn whether it’s stress or anxiety, and what one can do to cope.
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.
Feeling stressed? Follow these seven easy tips by Right Direction to help you de-stress and relax.
As an employer, you have a duty of care to safeguard both the physical and mental well-being of your employees. This Mental Health UK article offers comprehensive insights into burnout, along with practical recommendations for workplace strategies that employers and managers can implement to promote positive mental health.
Do you feel anxious at work? This article by Occupational Safety & Health US provides practical strategies for managing stress and anxiety in the workplace, emphasising the importance of self-care, adequate sleep, balanced diet, physical activity, and a supportive work environment.
Post-traumatic stress disorder can follow tough or scary experiences. In this video by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, you can learn about signs, causes, and what to do if you or someone you know might have PTSD
The guide by the Finnish Centre for Occupational Safety helps employees and supervisors prevent harmful psychosocial stress together and provides support for situations where harmful stress is present.
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.
The Workload Assessment Tool by the Finnish Centre for Occupational Safety helps you identify the balance between your workload and resource factors, assisting you with taking appropriate measures. The assessment can be done either individually or together with an employer’s representative.
Here you can find concrete tools from Work Environment in Denmark about unclear and conflicting work requirements that you can use to improve the working environment (e.g. Workbook “Take care of the stress”, “Prioritization of the core task”, “Get a handle on work pressure”, etc.). They are only available in Danish, but with modern translation tools, you can take inspiration from them!
This survey tool by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health provides a workshop guide and step-by-step questions meant to help identify the cognitive work stress factors in work community. It aims to increase understanding on what kinds of factors impede the smooth flow of work and cause unnecessary stress in the work community.
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.