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An EU-wide campaign on ‘Managing stress and psychosocial risks at work’ is going to be launched on 7 April 2014 by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).

The campaign focuses on stress and psychosocial risks at the workplace and seeks to provide support and guidance for workers and employers to recognise and tackle effectively work-related stress. ETUCE will engage in the campaign as a campaign partner.

This 2014-2015 campaign is part of EU OSHA’s campaign series Healthy Workplaces. It takes up the issue of stress as the second most frequently reported work-related health problem in Europe which is believed to be the cause of more than half of all lost working days.

The campaign’s key aim is to help employers’ and workers’ representatives, managers and workers to identify and manage stress and psychosocial risks in the workplace. It further seeks to send out the signal that effective management of stress and psychosocial risks is possible.

ETUCE will engage in the campaign as a partner building on the knowledge gathered in a number of projects on work-related stress in the education sector. ETUCE’s engagement with the issue of stress and psychosocial risks at work has led to a number of publications including a policy paper on work-related stress, an Action Plan, and an Implementation Guide for the European Framework Agreement on work-related stress. All publications can be found on the ETUCE teachers’ health and safety website.

All materials concerning the on-going EU OSHA campaign, among those the campaign guide and leaflet, can be downloaded from the campaign website: http://www.healthy-workplaces.eu/.