Employers – ‘Take the Risk out of Risk Assessment and Take the Stress out of Stress Audits’.
The HSA, in association with the University Of Ulster, is offering an on-line audit tool to have your psychosocial risk assessment carried out at minimal charge, limited administrative burden and no stress!.
This is fully confidential –neither your individual nor your employer results will be made available to the HSA or any other organisation.
Taking just ten minutes per staff member, it will give you a profile of your organisation’s psychosocial safety and provide individual feedback to each participating employee.
This Workplace Wellbeing questionnaire is part of a systematic approach to psychosocial risk management forming part of the HSA’s Work Positive approach. If you are an employer or manager in the education, financial services or the health sector particularly, or in any type of enterprise in any sector and of any size operating in Ireland -including micro and the SME sector (5-50 Employees)- then this is aimed at you and your employees.
The aim for us is to build up an Irish data bank (of results only, no identifiers) so register today and find out how best to target any interventions or assistance, informal or formal, which may help increase your employee satisfaction and productivity.
Any queries on the survey purpose or eligibility, phone 01 6147055 (Patricia Murray) or email Suzanne Boyd at: Boyd-S12@email.ulster.ac.uk.
This confidential assessment is delivered through an on-line questionnaire accessed by a dedicated password for each participant organisation. It has 42 questions concerning general wellbeing and workplace organisation. It follows on from previous projects in 2008 and 2009 and is aligned to the UK’s Management Standards approach.
Managed by experts from the University of Ulster, all the organisational information gained is confidential to you. University of Ulster spin-out Wellbeing Ltd is overseeing the audit-tool and has been given sole responsibility for the project management and data benchmarking. Find out more and learn about the process on www.managingwellbeing.com/profile
How does it work?
If you are in a lead position and, having read through the above information on the link and you then decide to avail of this offer, just go to the survey registration page and sign up. There you will get all the plain and simple information and any support you need can be gained by emailing Suzanne Boyd as above.
After Registration you are sent a password and access code. Then:
- tell your staff about the assessment and why you want them to participate
- invite them to find out more on line
- give each staff member ten minutes access to a computer to complete the questionnaire
- Ensure staff know that their response is in confidence and that no individual response can be accessed or identified
- The analysis will be carried out for you and a confidential personal result delivered immediately to each employee
- The organisation-wide result /profile is only available to the person (the employer) who signs up for the process.
What are the Benefits?
Employers
The results should inform your planning, health and safety and HR policies and practises into the future. Wellbeing increases work satisfaction and improves trust and commitment and benefits staff and employers alike.
Employees
Employees can identify that the employer is willing to consult with them and allow them express their views, through the questionnaire. They get an immediate short personal feedback paragraph while they are completing the questionnaire, in confidence, profiling their individual wellbeing and coping skills (WHO – 5) and they benefit from knowing the organisation-wide results will be part of the organisation’s on-going safety and health management system.
Although all employees should be invited and facilitated to do the questionnaire, they are not obligated to do so. It is an entirely voluntary process throughout. Nobody will know who did, and who did not take the survey. The person leading the survey within each organisation will be told only what percentage of employees took the survey and results will be given regardless of that percentage.