Burnt Chef Project releases stress support guide

The Burnt Chef Project has released a new Work Related Stress Guide, designed to provide insight to employers and leaders on how they can start to strategically tackle work-related stress within their place of work.

According to the organisation, which offers mental health support for the UK hospitality industry, stress, depression and anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health cases in 2020/21. 

The main work factors cited by respondents as causing work-related stress, depression or anxiety were workload pressures, including tight deadlines and too much responsibility with lack of managerial support.

"Our industry is facing more pressures than ever before, yet we’re not always equipped to deal with the issues this may bring to individuals within our team," says ​Kris Hall, CEO of The Burnt Chef Project. 

As a result, the charity has released its new stress guide to help employers start to implement procedures to tackle work-related stress and its impacts to both wellbeing and performance.

"We’ve developed this publication to assist employers and persons with duties under Occupational Health and Safety laws to comply with those laws in relation to work-related stress in the workplace," says Hall. "With work-related stress affecting such a high proportion of our team's wellbeing, it’s time to put the resources in place to support our teams and arm our managers with the tools they need to help their staff thrive, not just survive. Our free guide has been compiled with information, knowledge and expertise within the field of hospitality workplace wellbeing."

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