Briefing Note No.19

Energy Institute Briefing Note No. 19 - Pressure and Stress

Our life and our work provides us with interesting challenges, opportunities to meet people and use our skills. This is all good for us and helps keep us psychologically healthy. However, when there are too many demands on us, or when we have to face difficulties at work and/or problems at home, we can start to feel unable to cope. This can affect performance and, clearly, for anyone working in a major hazards environment, any negative impact on performance can have farreaching, even devastating, consequences.