The Stress Indicator Tool has recently been updated and expanded to take account of significant changes to working practices, including technical innovations that have altered the ways people work. The purpose is to explore stress risks that are of most relevance in the context of modern working practices, and to understand how these might be related to mental health outcomes and workforce engagement.
What is the Stress Indicator Tool 2.0
The Health and Safety Executive’s Stress Indicator Tool (SIT) has been updated and expanded in collaboration with the University of Hull. This is to take account of significant changes to working practices, including technological innovations that have altered the ways people work.
The purpose of this development is to explore stress risks that are of most relevance in the context of modern working practices, and to understand how these might be related to mental health outcomes and workforce engagement.
The Stress Indicator Tool is an online survey designed to gather data anonymously from employees, which can be used in the risk assessment element of HSE’s Management Standards approach.
Obtaining and understanding this information helps identify areas to improve to prevent and manage work-related stress.
The reporting functionality is automated, so you don’t have to spend time collating data or inputting the results manually. This helps avoid data entry errors, making the information collected more accurate and reliable. The report then summarises the views and experiences of employees and provides recommendations for future improvements.
The Tool now includes:
• Home/remote working survey: an optional extra to
explore stress risks for these workers
• Mental health outcome questions: items from the Patient Health Questionnaire
(PHQ-4)
• ISA employee engagement scale: questions to measure workforce engagement
levels
• Exclusive benchmarking: measure performance against the sector average
More information can be found here