National Stress Awareness Day 2nd November

The  International Stress Management Association (ISMA) is running the National Stress Awareness Day today. Many people on benefits live under acute stress at times. We have published a downloadable guide for battling stress as an attachment. We hope it helps.

To coincide with National Stress Awareness Day (NSAD) on Wednesday 2nd November 2016, new research from the International Stress Management Association UK (ISMAUK), the UK’s leading Stress Management charity, has revealed that two thirds of employees fear to admit that they are suffering from stress as they believe this could harm their career prospects.

The survey also revealed that over half of those questioned feel unable to take time off work even when suffering from stress, as they felt they would be incapable, have a black mark against their name or that this would be viewed as a weakness.

Data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), who support NSAD, shows that 9.9 million days are lost to workplace stress, depression and anxiety each year. Workplace stress contributes to poor health, low performance and financial loss, both to business and to individuals.

To address this issue, ISMAUK created National Stress Awareness Day in 1998 to highlight the endemic incidence of stress throughout the community, and to show that companies which actively encourage resilience in their workforce regularly report improvement in morale and bottom-line results.

The ABC will be featuring ‘stress’ more in future. This however is a good introduction to the ISMA and its valuable work. 

Please download the guide below: