Questions
1. What is the ‘National Strategy For A Healthy Police Service’ and how does it impact on the workplace?
2. Outline the possible causes of stress and the impacts these can have on an individual and the organisation. How can these impacts be reduced?
3. How can your organisations attendance management be most effectively utlised?
The National Strategy for a Healthy Police Service was implemented on the 18th May 2007 with specific aims which are:-
• Promoting the case for good health and safety management, highlighting the business benefits, legal obligations and benefits for officer and police staff well being.
• Promoting effective safety management systems that include the visible leadership of Chief Officers and their Command teams.
• Communicating and sharing good ideas through the NPIA and various forces, to ensure the widespread application of benefits to/for all forces.
• Setting the standards that reflect best practice and making use of the experience and knowledge available throughout the service to ensure that there are the mechanisms in place to achieve agreed standards.
• Working in partnership with, and through, other agencies to improve health and safety.
• Supporting action plans and campaigns designed to build on past achievements.
• Providing information on, and informing all parties about, relevant standards, legislation and codes of practice, ensuring there is consultation on legislative changes that impact on the ability of the service to deliver this strategy.
In order to achieve this agreements and responsibilities were set between the various parties with vested interests which included The National Police Improveme ...