Improving health and attendance at Somerset County Council

Somerset County Council’s wide-ranging efforts to reduce employees’ absence and work-related stress have almost halved stress-related absences, saving it £0.5 million a year, and boosted employee motivation; it is now focusing on promoting employees’ health and wellbeing.

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Conducting a “quality of working life” survey
Identifying stress “hot spots”
Acting on the results of the stress audit
Preparing managers to manage absence and stress
Risk assessments
Managing long-term sickness absence
Health promotion programme: “Working well”
The keys to success
Organisation profile
Additional resources on HR & Compliance Centre.