EMPRO SAS Limited

Reasons for HR Managers to Use Us

Use Us to reduce stress and improved productivity - All for £11.25 per employee!

In 2007 each of the 16% of the workforce who took time off work to obtain relief from stress in the workplace cost employers an average of £3,577.80 per employee.

For an employer with 25 employees, for example, this is an avoidable loss of £14,311.00 on average. In this case an EMPRO Stress Assessment Survey is an investment of £281.25 to prevent the loss, and obtain a return on investment of up to 50 times the sum invested.

Effect of Stress

In the health & safety statistics report of 2007-08 there was one incredible fact:

• Employers reported that 63% of workers were exposed to stress but did not take time off work.

Or, to put it another way, the performance of nearly two-thirds of workers was adversely affected by stress. Clearly, the effect of stress on performance is considerably more extensive than suggested by time off work, and a sound reason for using EMPRO SAS.

So what is EMPRO SAS?

It is a unique management tool that delivers three huge benefits to companies:

1. It reliably identifies those who have symptoms of stress
2. It helps maximise employee productivity
3. It massively reduces the chance of being sued for stress related illness and having to pay the cost of being sued and any compensation awards that may be awarded.

Cost of stress

Managers need the information about individual employees to effectively control the cost of employee stress, which in 2007 was estimated to cost £572.45 per employee for those that actually took time off work.* They also need this information to effectively perform the duty of care to employees required by the Health and Safety at Work Act (2002), and extremely importantly, avoid employee litigation seeking compensation for illness associated with workplace stress. Awards for claims arising from stress at work made to the civil courts have been as high as £795,333.

Employees who suffer work related stress often claim their employer was negligent in allowing them to succumb to stress. By using the EMPRO SAS Stress Assessment Service it immediately reduces an employee's chance of a successful claim. Asking an employee to fill in the EMPRO SAS stress survey questionnaire shows the employer is exercising a duty of care by implementing a stress at work policy, and taking all reasonable steps to manage any workplace stress reported.

*The cost of lost productivity is far greater than the £572.45 per employee if you take into account the 63% that were exposed to stress but did not take time of work.