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Work stress induced psychological disorders in construction
Published in Imriyas Kamardeen, Work Stress Induced Chronic Diseases in Construction, 2021
The identification of psychosocial hazards may be achieved by the following mechanisms in an organisation: conversations with employees, supervisors, managers and workplace wellbeing specialistsworkplace inspections/audits to observe the implementation of work activities and employee interactionssurveying employees, supervisors and managersreviewing incident reports, workers’ compensation claims and staff turnover reports.
Occupational hazards, sleep quality and musculoskeletal problems of pregnant workers
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Female employees experience certain stress during pregnancy related to adaptation to professional life and preparation for becoming a mother (Alstveit et al. 2010). Pregnancy-related pelvic region pain has been reported to be associated with a range of physical and psychosocial factors, although higher levels of stress and lower job satisfaction may also cause this pain (Juhl et al. 2005; Albert et al. 2006). In the current study, psychosocial hazards were found to have a noticeable negative effect on 7 of 27 items related to musculoskeletal complaints. In this context, there is a need to raise awareness of employer and employee teams to be able to reduce work-related psychosocial hazards in addition to physical and work environment-related hazards.
Exposure to occupational hazards among bakers and their coping mechanisms in Ghana
Published in Cogent Medicine, 2020
Winifred Serwaa Bonsu, Dina Adei, Williams Agyemang-Duah
The study revealed that the specific biological hazards the participants were exposed to include mosquitoes, insects, and rodents because ingredients such as flour, wheat, margarine, and sugar were kept in their working room. Malaria was noted as the predominant effect of biological hazard participants were exposed to. Besides the biological hazards, the study reported that the participants were exposed to stress (workload), verbal abuse and poor interpersonal relationship as the types of psychosocial hazards. These psychological hazards resulted in injuries, low productivity, absenteeism and poor concentration at work. Employers refuse to increase their staff because the informal sector is geared towards profit maximisation (De Bruin & Taylor, 2005). This contributes to a stressful and an unfriendly working environment. These psychosocial hazards affect workers and their families as well as their jobs since sickness is related to loss of productivity and hence low incomes. Besides, stress reduces workers’ productivity, which causes an economic loss of approximately 4–5 percent of the Gross National Product of many countries (Greenlund et al., 1995). These also have physical, mental, social and health implications on bakers (Greenlund et al., 1995). In this study, participants were exposed to chemical hazards. Bakers especially pan cleaners used sodium hydroxide, bleach and other chemicals for cleaning the baking environment, which cause skin infection and irritation to the eye (Aguwa & Arinze-Onyia Sussan, 2014; Arrandale et al., 2013). Due to the chemicals used in the preparation of the local soap “Azuma blow” cleaners, develop whitlow and parts of their skin peel off.
Work-related musculoskeletal injuries in prosthetists and orthotists in Australia
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2021
Sarah Anderson, Rwth Stuckey, Jodi Oakman
Twenty-six items from the work organisation assessment questionnaire (WOAQ) [16] were used to assess workplace psychosocial hazards with a 5-point response scale (5 = very good to 1 = major problem). Questions covered aspects of work such as feedback, personal relationships and communication; an example question is ‘how good or bad has feedback on your performance been in the past 6 months?’ Cronbach's α for the measure was 0.78. Scores for psychosocial hazards (WOAQ) were calculated by summing items for each measure and dividing by 26 (the number of items).