How can an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) or Employee Support Service help?

The provision of an EAP, or confidential counselling service for employees, demonstrates that the company is taking reasonable care to ensure employees are not at risk of injury from stress.

Receiving anonymous feedback about the stress experienced in the organisation, in the form of a regular report, allows for proactive measures to be taken to prevent stress becoming a problem in the company.

Research has shown that the company will benefit from reduced absenteeism. Other benefits will include:

- being seen to have in place a preventive stress management programme therefore reducing risk of litigation
- reduced insurance premiums