Hard Hats, Safety Glasses and Respirators Can’t Protect Workers From Stress: How to reduce it!

It’s a well-known fact, people are safer on the job than they are at home. This is true for everything except stress and the dangerous consequences it causes to people, property and productivity. This program shows how to create a safer workplace by helping employees become more productive and stress-resistant.

How Does Stress Affect Safety In Your Organization?

• What stress is and what it is doing to your company
• Here is what the statistics say about stress in organizations
• The primary reason stress is causing you so many problems
• Why stress overload is so widespread in today’s workplace
• Three reasons people are burning out on the job

The High Cost Companies Pay For Not Managing Stress

• How to create new models for managing stress and discard ineffective old habits
• The place of risk-taking in stress management and the benefits of becoming an intelligent risk-taker

Safely Managing Stress For Peak Performance

• Too little stress and too much stress are both problems – finding the optimal level
• The warning signs of stress overload – what to do and what not to do about them
• Your worst enemy in the war on stress: denial – how to combat it
• The stages on the road to worker burnout
• The five stages of employee stress

Reducing Stress When Levels Become Too High And Unsafe

• A three-level model for stress intervention and management
• The power of a ‘take charge’ attitude – what it can do and how to develop it
• Three choices workers always have when combating stress

Teaching Associates How To Manage Stressors

• How to communicate your needs, state your limits, and say “NO”
• Essential principals of managing your conflicts successfully
• How to respond to criticism in ways that keep your stress at a minimum

How To Become Stress-Resistant, Safely

• Three characteristics of people who survive stressful times and how to adopt them
• Rational thinking – what it is and how you can use it to manage your stress
• Four key strategies to help you change what you think about your stressors

Helping Workers Counteract The Destructive Effects Of Organizational Stress

• The relaxation response – how to use it to reduce stress and improve health
• What to eat when you are under too much stress and why
• How to use exercise to help you survive stress and perform at your peak
• The value of developing a sense of humor and putting plenty of play and laughter into your schedule
• A holistic approach to managing stress for a greater quality of life