This booklet looks at workplace stress, stress in the Irish workplace, job stress as a major problem, the impact of job stress, the obligations on employers to prevent job stress, working conditions as the primary cause of job stress, work-related stressors, how job stress damages your health, looking out for job stress, the business argument for reducing job stress, the effects of organisational sources of stress, characteristics of low stress and high productivity workplaces, how to reduce work-related stress, what to do about organisational stressors, simple risk assessment for job stress, risk assessment for stress for large organisations, sample workplace, useful contacts and further reading.