Who is this call for evidence issued by?
Affinity Health at Work, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), Institute of Employment Studies (IES), and the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) are delivering a two year programme of Occupational Stress Consultation and Research (OSCAR), funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Why are we reaching out?
Project OSCAR aims to provide HSE with the evidence base to inform policy decisions and underpin guidance on the practical actions that employers can take to prevent and mitigate work-related stress. The project has three research questions (RQs) of interest:
- DEFINE AND IDENTIFY (RQ2): How is work-related stress defined and identified by organisations and GPs?
- PREVENT AND REDUCE (RQ1): What interventions are effective for preventing and reducing work-related stress?
- BARRIERS AND ENABLERS (RQ3): What are the enablers and barriers to organisations effectively reducing the risk of work-related stress?
We need your help to identify existing guidance documents and publications for integration in our desktop review of existing academic and grey literature concerning each of the three research areas of interest.
How can you get involved?
We are reaching out to employers, clinicians, occupational health/wellbeing leads, advisory agencies, support charities, professional bodies, unions, academics and invite you to share your recommended practices, guidance resources and trusted literature in the filed of work-related stress in response to the following survey.
This will be open until the end of September 2024.
If you have any questions regarding your contribution or should you prefer to email the team directly please contact oscar@affinityhealthatwork.com.
Our Call for Evidence is now closed. Thank you so much for those who participated. If you have research which you did not get the chance to submit, please feel free to email the mailbox oscar@affinityhealthatwork.com.
