About us
About EMPRO SAS
About The Service
The EMPRO Stress Assessment Service is the only service of its kind that uses the Employee Profile (EMPRO) Method to assess the workplace stress of individual employees. Other services use a tool for employee stress assessment, such as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Tool, which serves a different purpose, namely, to "help indicate potentials for stress in an organisation, and by selective analysis, specific parts of it, in an anonymous format" (personal communication from Mr Chris Rowe, Stress Programme Manager, Better Health Division, Health and Safety Executive, London). These tools tell you there is a problem. EMPRO SAS tells you where the problem is. It is for a HR Manager to judge which tool better serves a company's needs.
The EMPRO Stress Assessment Service is provided by EMPRO SAS Limited.
Registered office: 454 Abbey Lane, Sheffield, S7 2QY.
Company registration (England and Wales) number: 6987907.
Postal address: EMPRO SAS Limited, Sheffield Technology Parks, Cooper Buildings, Arundel Street, Sheffield, S1 2NS.
Tel and Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 1002
E-mail: information@empro-sas.com
The directors of EMPRO SAS Limited are Dr Sue Mawson and Mr Bunny le Roux.
Dr Sue Mawson
Dr Sue Mawson is a Reader in Health and Social Care Research in the Health and Social Care Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, and a Research Lead for the Professional Services Directorate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. She has a Diploma in Physiotherapy, a Certificate in Health Care Research, a BSc (Hons) degree in physiotherapy, and a PhD degree in physiotherapy. Dr Mawson has also attended courses in various aspects of physiotherapy, in the design of research projects, and the collection and analysis of research data.
Dr Mawson has worked as a physiotherapist in hospitals in London and Sheffield, and in children's hospitals in Johannesburg and Cape Town. She has carried out funded and unfunded research, has been a consultant for research projects, and has supervised MPhil and PhD students.
Dr Mawson has attended national and international conferences on physiotherapy and research in physiotherapy, and presented papers at many of them. She is the author of chapters in books on neurological physiotherapy, and has written a number of papers published in peer reviewed academic journals.
In December 2007 Dr Mawson was seconded to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for three months, to lead the South Yorkshire application to become a pilot National Institute of Health Collaborative Leadership in Applied Research and Health Care. In March 2008 Sheffield Hallam University awarded Dr Mawson the title of Professor of Rehabilitation.
In January 2009 the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield conferred the title of Visiting Professor on Dr Mawson.
Mr Bunny le Roux
Mr Bunny le Roux has a BSc degree in pure and applied mathematics, and an MSc degree in mathematical statistics. Bunny (as Mr A A le Roux) was the owner of the EMPRO Method copyright until he assigned it to EMPRO SAS Limited. Bunny conceived and developed the ideas of the EMPRO Method, and continues to develop their use particularly in the assessment of workplace stress.
When he left Sheffield Hallam University in 1996 to become a full-time managing director of TELER Limited, Bunny was Principal Lecturer in Social Statistics in the School of Computing and Management Science at Sheffield Hallam University, where he also was Course Leader for the Certificate in Health Care Research and Director of Studies for an MPhil in Midwifery in the School of Health and Social Studies. For more than twenty years he taught applied statistics and research method on School of Health and Social Studies courses in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiography, midwifery, community psychiatric nursing, health care research and social science. Bunny was also an advisor or director of studies for a number of higher degrees in health care.
For three years from 1986 Bunny le Roux was on part-time secondment to the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit at Middlewood Hospital in Sheffield, to develop the use of the Rehab scale by clinicians in the delivery of care, and by managers in the delivery of the service. For seven years from 1990 he was a visiting lecturer in the Institute of Nursing Studies at the University of Hull, teaching on the ENB 870 Research Methods Course.
Bunny has attended many national and international conferences in health care, reading papers on the use of statistics in health care at most of them, and for 1996 was a Fellow of the Otago Southland Physiotherapy Trust in New Zealand. He has been a partner in a number of research projects, and has carried out commissioned research.