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This paper focuses on the specific relevance of workplace risk assessments to help educate and inform all personnel, especially managers, human resources, health, safety and welfare professionals. The paper includes a model of organisational stress highlighting the relationship between potential work-related stress hazards, individual and organisational symptoms of stress, negative outcomes and financial costs (Palmer et al, 20031, 2). The key components of this model relate directly to the Health and Safety Executive publication (HSE, 20013) that centres on employers taking work-related stress seriously and actively working to improve and maintain employee health and wellbeing. This article also refers to the revised HSE Management Standards launched in November 2004.