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Occupational stress intervention

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1996
The topic of occupational stress has received considerable research attention during the last decade and has emerged as an important occupational safety and health concern. Worker compensation claims for stress-related illnesses, for example, were the fastest growing type of claim in the 1980s, comprising more that 11% of all such claims.
J J, Hurrell, L R, Murphy
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Occupational Stress

2023
The workplace can be a major source of stress, and this can cause health problems that have a negative impact on the individuals, organizational, and society. This concise, evidence-based volume, written by a leading occupational health psychologist, explores how work conditions and organizational characteristics pose threats and harms to people’s ...
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Occupational Injury and Stress

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1995
A literature search was conducted to identify studies that measured the relationship between stress and occupational injury. Studies that provided a quantitative measure of stress and occupational injury and a quantitative assessment of the relationship between these two factors were selected for this review. Twenty studies were identified, and all had
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A study of occupational stress and health

Applied Ergonomics, 1973
Because of claims by telegraphists' unions in a large Australian communications organization that their members suffered various forms of ill-health as a result of stresses imposed by their work, sickness absence, medical and environmental studies of the occupation were undertaken.
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Occupational Stress in Seafaring

2017
The seafaring occupation is characterized by specific psychosocial, work-related and environmental stressors which have many potential negative effects on the seafarers’ health, safety and well-being. From a review of the contemporary literature in the field arises the issue of implementation of occupational stress management programmes in the maritime
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Occupational Stress

2020
Part One: Theoretical Perspectives in Occupational Research Psychological Stress in the Workplace Work Stress Conceived and Researched Transactionally Measuring Occupational Stress: The Job Stress Survey. Part Two: Sources and Consequences of Occupational Stress: Model Testing Coping with Stressful Life Events: An Empirical Analysis A Field Study of ...
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Occupational Stress

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 2011
Occupational stress can affect physiological and psychological homeostasis. In addition, the occupational challenges associated with firefighting and law enforcement have been linked to increased mortality ratios for ischemic heart disease when compared with other population cohorts.
Chun-Jung Huang, Edmund O. Acevedo
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Policy Perspectives on Occupational Stress

Workplace Health & Safety, 2014
Occupational stress is a major physical and mental hazard for many workers and has been found to contribute to cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disorders, mood disturbances, workplace injuries, and mental health problems. Health care utilization related to these physical and mental health problems costs employers billions of dollars annually. To
Louise C, O'Keefe, Kathleen C, Brown, Becky J, Christian   +2 more
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Occupational Stress: Review and Reappraisal

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1982
This article presents an overview of the topic of occupational stress. Although its framework is somewhat conceptual, the article is intended to alert researchers to the practical considerations relevant to this topic. The authors attempt to arrive at a workable definition of stress, and then proceed to review the literature in this area, focusing on ...
J, Sharit, G, Salvendy
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Work Stress in Occupational Therapists Assessed by the Occupational Stress Indicator

British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1991
Levels and sources of work-related stress, measures of type A behaviour pattern and perceived locus of control, use of coping strategies and indicators of work-related stress (mental and physical ill health, sickness absence and job satisfaction ratings) were examined in 60 members of two district occupational therapy departments as part of a larger ...
David W Rees, Simon D Smith
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