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    Psychological Hazards: How Can These Hazards Affect Workers' Psychological Health?

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    Psychological hazards arise from workers failing to adapt to an alien work environment and can include frustration, lack of job satisfaction, insecurity, and poor relationships. These psychological factors can undermine both physical and mental health. Psychological hazards can lead to psychological and behavioral changes like anxiety, depression, and sickness absenteeism as well as psychosomatic illnesses like fatigue, headaches, and pain. Assessing risks to workers' psychological health can be done through anonymous surveys, consultative practices, communication processes, and reviews of injury and absence data. Decreasing and preventing psychological hazards involves involving employees in decisions, open information exchange, optimal workload, and zero tolerance of harassment through good management, work organization, and supporting at-risk groups.

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    Psychological hazards arise from workers failing to adapt to an alien work environment and can include frustration, lack of job satisfaction, insecurity, and poor relationships. These psychological factors can undermine both physical and mental health. Psychological hazards can lead to psychological and behavioral changes like anxiety, depression, and sickness absenteeism as well as psychosomatic illnesses like fatigue, headaches, and pain. Assessing risks to workers' psychological health can be done through anonymous surveys, consultative practices, communication processes, and reviews of injury and absence data. Decreasing and preventing psychological hazards involves involving employees in decisions, open information exchange, optimal workload, and zero tolerance of harassment through good management, work organization, and supporting at-risk groups.

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    Psychological hazards arise from workers failing to adapt to an alien work environment and can include frustration, lack of job satisfaction, insecurity, and poor relationships. These psychological factors can undermine both physical and mental health. Psychological hazards can lead to psychological and behavioral changes like anxiety, depression, and sickness absenteeism as well as psychosomatic illnesses like fatigue, headaches, and pain. Assessing risks to workers' psychological health can be done through anonymous surveys, consultative practices, communication processes, and reviews of injury and absence data. Decreasing and preventing psychological hazards involves involving employees in decisions, open information exchange, optimal workload, and zero tolerance of harassment through good management, work organization, and supporting at-risk groups.

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    Psychological Hazards: How Can These Hazards Affect Workers' Psychological Health?

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    Psychological hazards arise from workers failing to adapt to an alien work environment and can include frustration, lack of job satisfaction, insecurity, and poor relationships. These psychological factors can undermine both physical and mental health. Psychological hazards can lead to psychological and behavioral changes like anxiety, depression, and sickness absenteeism as well as psychosomatic illnesses like fatigue, headaches, and pain. Assessing risks to workers' psychological health can be done through anonymous surveys, consultative practices, communication processes, and reviews of injury and absence data. Decreasing and preventing psychological hazards involves involving employees in decisions, open information exchange, optimal workload, and zero tolerance of harassment through good management, work organization, and supporting at-risk groups.

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    Psychological hazards

    Psychological hazards are aspects of the work environment and the way that work
    is organized that are associated with mental disorders and/or physical injury or
    illness.
    The psychological arise from the workers failure to adapt to an alien psychosocial
    environment. Frustration Lake of job satisfaction, insecurity, poor human
    relationships, emotional tension are some of the psychological factors which may
    undermine both physical and mental health of the workers. The capacity to adopt
    to different working environment is influenced by many factors such as education,
    cultural, background, family social habits.
    And what the worker expects from employment the health effects can be classified
    in two main categories: -
     Psychological and behavioral changes: including hostility aggressiveness,
    anxiety, depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, sickness absenteeism
     Psychosomatic ill-health: including fatigue, headache, and pain in the
    shoulders, neck and back, propensity to peptic ulcer hypertension, heart
    disease and rapid aging.

    Reports from various parts of the word indicate that physical factors (heat, noise,
    poor, lighting) also play a major role in add to or precipitating mental disease
    among workers. The increase stress on automation, electronic operations and
    nuclear energy may introduce never psychosocial health problem in industry.

    How can these hazards affect workers' psychological health?

    If not managed effectively, psychosocial hazards can impact on workers'


    psychological and physical health and wellbeing. They can also adversely affect:

     job satisfaction
     organizational commitment
     conflict in the worker's family life.
    Work environment poses a unique combination of risks to psychological
    health including:

    * a potential for a high level of emotional demands


    * expectations that workers provide consistently high levels of customer
    service
    * high levels of work monitoring through systems and by supervisors
    * perceptions of low organizational, supervisor, and/or peer support.
    How to assess the risks

    Risks to contact center workers psychological health can be identified and assessed
    through:

     anonymous surveys (such as People at Work)


     effective consultative practices
     effective communication processes
     review of injury reports
     review of absence data.

    Decreasing and Preventing Psychological Hazards

    Possibilities to advance the well-being of employees and prevent occupational


    stress depend on the specific institution, organization of work, employees’
    expectations and characteristics, existing resources and much more, but the rule of
    thumb for shaping a positive psychosocial working environment is to involve
    employees in decisions about them, open information exchange, optimal workload
    and zero tolerance of occupational violence (including any signs of bullying and
    harassment).

    When planning activities to improve the psychosocial working environment, it


    must be remembered that it is always more efficient and cheaper to prevent the
    problem on the organization level through good management and work
    organization. Where risks cannot be fully avoided, it might help to apply measures
    directed for supporting the risk groups, or to rehabilitate employees who have
    already suffered due to work pressure

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