The forgotten realm of the new and emerging psychosocial risk factors

[Abstract] : In Europe, employers of all private and public enterprises have a legal obligation to protect their employers by all the different types of workplace hazards to the safety and health of workers. The most important methods developed for the work-related stress risk assessment are based o...

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Published in:Journal of Occupational Health Vol. 59; no. 5; pp. 433 - 435
Main Author: Chirico, Francesco
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Australia JAPAN SOCIETY FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 01.09.2017
Oxford University Press
Japan Society for Occupational Health
Subjects:
Absenteeism
Aggression
Agreements
Burnout
Burnout, Professional - psychology
Costs
Employers
Europe
Humans
Literature reviews
Mental health
Observatories
Occupational Health
Occupational safety
Occupational stress
Occupational Stress - prevention & control
Occupational Stress - psychology
Opinion/Recommendation
Prevention
Psychosocial risk factors
Public enterprise
Public sector
Risk analysis
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Safety
Safety Management - legislation & jurisprudence
Safety Management - methods
Social interactions
Stress
Violence
Work life balance
Workloads
Workplace - psychology
Work‐related stress
Italy
United Kingdom > UK
Belgium
Europe
Luxembourg
Germany
Psychosocial risk factors
Work-related stress
Risk assessment
Mental health
ISSN:1341-9145, 1348-9585, 1348-9585
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Summary:[Abstract] : In Europe, employers of all private and public enterprises have a legal obligation to protect their employers by all the different types of workplace hazards to the safety and health of workers. The most important methods developed for the work-related stress risk assessment are based on the Cox's research commissioned by European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) and are the Management Standard HSE for work-related stress in United Kingdom, the START method in Germany, the Screening, Observation, Analysis, Expertise (SOBANE) in Belgium, and the National Institute for Prevention and Safety at Work (INAIL-ISPESL) model in Italy, the latter based on the British Management Standard. Unfortunately, the definition of "work-related stress" elaborated by EU-OSHA was criticized, because it is not completely equal to the broader "psychosocial risk," which includes new and emerging psychosocial risk factors, such as the combined exposure to physical and psychosocial risks, job insecurity, work intensification and high demands at work, high emotional load related to burnout, work-life balance problems, and violence and harassment at work. All these new emerging psychosocial hazards could require different and additional methodologies to save workers' health and safety. For this reason, the concept that stakeholders and policy makers should keep in mind in order to develop better national regulations and strategies is that work-related stress risk and psychosocial risk factors are not the same.
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ISSN:1341-9145
1348-9585
1348-9585
DOI:10.1539/joh.17-0111-OP