The new mandatory stress check system and medical workers’ mental health support

Abstract

From December 2015 the Ministry of Labor and Welfare’s new Stress Check law will go into effect. Businesses with more than 50 employees will be required to give the new stress check to all employees. I have been conducting the same kind of stress check at Toho University Sakura Hospital since 2010. My purpose for establishing this safety measure was to provide hospital workers in a high stress jobs with preventive primary care before developing work related mental illness and physical illness caused by stress. I will be explaining how the new Stress Check System can be best implemented in companies.