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CIS News, January 2004
Canadian publication on workplace stress
Canada's largest union, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), recently released a publication entitled Enough Workplace Stress: Organizing for Change. The guideline written by CUPE's National Health and Safety Branch is mainly based on ideas developed by attendees of a workshop of the same name at CUPE's 8th National Health and Safety Conference.
CUPE describes the guideline as part of the union's "broader efforts to eliminate workplace stress" and that it "is designed for CUPE members to help address and solve workplace stress problems as health and safety hazards." It has two main sections:
- Background information on workplace stress: what the problem is, what the causes are, who is affected, and what the hazards are.
- Actions, solutions and strategies to eliminate workplace stress and the health and safety hazards associated with stress.
Described by CUPE as a tool for action, Enough Workplace Stress: Organizing for Change contains concepts, solutions and strategies that the union hopes can effect meaningful change in CUPE workplaces across the country. The union maintains that with this guideline, their members will be able to identify and eliminate workplace stress hazards.
PDF version of the publication at cupe.ca/updir/stress_guideline.pdf.
Updated by AS. Approved by EC. Last update: 30.11.2004.
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