The Burnout Risk Assessment Toolkit

Burnout is treated almost everywhere as a problem with a person who did not cope. Nearly fifty years of research says the opposite: it is a response to conditions, and the conditions are in the job. That distinction decides where the money goes, and it is the reason resilience training so often changes nothing.

This toolkit measures the six areas of worklife that actually drive it: workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values. You get a 30-item team assessment, a pattern table that tells you which combination of low scores points at which cause, and interventions separated honestly into what the evidence supports and what is wellness theatre. There is a manager conversation guide with the three questions worth asking and the three sentences that end the conversation.

For HR teams, team leaders, occupational health and operations managers.

What it is not: the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The items were written from the published construct definitions, carry no clinical cut-off, and must never be used to assess an individual. The toolkit says exactly that, and includes clear guidance on when something stops being a workload question and becomes a health matter needing a clinician the same day.

11 pages, A4, formatted for printing. Delivered as a PDF immediately after payment.