Implementing and enforcing health and safety policies and practices, including identification of distress, harmful use of psychoactive substances, and illness as well as providing resources to manage them. • Informing staff that support is available. • Involving employees in decision making, conveying a feeling of control and participation. • Implementing of organizational practices that support a healthy work-life balance. • Providing programs for career development of employees. • Recognizing and rewarding the contribution of employees. ACTIVITY III. Work-Related Stress and Management (Role-play) Purpose: To be mindful of work-related stress and be knowledgeable on how to manage it. Materials: Cartolina and pentel pen Time: 20 minutes Instruction: Form 4 groups consisting of 5-7 members. The group shall have members who will act as the senior officer, junior officer, and co-workers. Each group will be given 5 minutes to role-play a situation where an employee is pressured from work and how one will handle it using self-help techniques. Training Module on the Right to Mental Health for the Security Sector • Stress is a common phenomenon being experienced by almost all individuals. Stress may be viewed as a real or interpreted threat to the physiological and psychological response, producing mental tension or physiological reactions leading to illness. It is a physical or psychological state which increases the demands for adjustment from the individual. Occupational stress is defined as any discomfort which is felt and perceived at a personal level and triggered by instances, events or situations that are too intense and frequent in nature so as to exceed a person’s coping capabilities and resources to handle them adequately. Simply put, occupational stress is stress at work. Often a stressor can lead to the body having various disturbances, which in turn will result in physical and mental strain of a person. The past 25 years of research has established the complexity of the construct that places the individual stress experience within a larger organizational context of people’s relations to their work. Recently, the work on burnout has expanded internationally and has led to new conceptual models. 12