Workplace stress and firefighter health and safety

2019 ◽  
pp. 274-292
Author(s):  
Todd D. Smith ◽  
Mari-Amanda Dyal ◽  
David M. DeJoy
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Firefighter Health

The Impact of Organisational, Social Environmental and Job Content Stressors on the Work Related Strains of Probation Officers

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare O'donnell ◽  
Christine Stephens
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Work Stressors ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Job Content ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years workplace stress has been seen as an important occupational health and safety problem and probation officers in New Zealand have been identified as suffering from increasing perceptions of stress. Accordingly, the present study was undertaken with a sample of 50 New Zealand Probation Officers in three offices to examine the relationship of individual, organisational and work stressors with work related strains. It was predicted that work stressors would be positively related to strains and that individual differences (e.g., age or gender) would have a moderating effect on the relationship between stressors and strains. The results showed that stressors caused by organisational problems, such as role boundary and overload, were related to strains, more strongly than job content problems, such as difficult clients. Secondly, age may have a curvilinear relationship to strains. Thirdly, the office, or place of work, moderates the stressor strain relationship.

Managing Workplace Stress: Psychosocial Hazard Risk Profiles in Public and Private Sector Australia

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina D'Aleo ◽  
Peter Stebbins ◽  
Roger Lowe ◽  
Danielle Lees ◽  
David Ham
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hazard Risk ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Job Content ◽  
Job Context

AbstractThe present research examined the perceptions of Australian employees on dimensions of workplace stress. The sample included 664 male (n= 234) and female (n= 430) workers from the public (n= 559) and private (n= 105) sectors. Participants completed the Health and Safety Executive Indicator Tool as a measure of workplace stress. Results indicated that private sector employees rated their employers as being more effective in managing workplace stress, while employees in both sectors rated their employers as less effective in managing Job Content stressors than Job Context stressors. Compared with normative benchmarks, employees overall also reported risks of stress associated with Relationships and Role. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research were discussed.

scholarly journals Delivery of a psychological intervention to assess and reduce workplace stress among intensive care staff

2020 ◽  
pp. 175114371988485
Author(s):  
Dorothy Wade ◽  
Milena Georgieva ◽  
Hein Gunnewicht ◽  
Jacqui Finnigan ◽  
Niall MacCallum
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Staff Support

Introduction Intensive care staff have high levels of stress. We conducted a service improvement initiative to assess workplace stress levels among staff in one adult general intensive care unit and deliver a stress management intervention. Methods A psychological intervention of four stress management sessions, and fortnightly staff support drop-in groups, was developed and delivered within a year. Pre- and post-intervention, workplace stress in the unit was assessed using a Health and Safety Executive tool. Results Pre-intervention assessment of 76 (47.2%) staff indicated that improvement was needed in all domains of workplace stress. 125 staff (77.6%) participated in the intervention and gave positive ratings for content, relevance, practicality and personal value (median 4 (1–5); interquartile range 3.8–4.6). Post-intervention assessment of 71 staff (41.3%) demonstrated improvements in all workplace stress domains. Conclusion A reduction in workplace stress was observed following a service improvement intervention in one intensive care unit although no causality can be assumed. Similar interventions should be evaluated using robust study designs.

scholarly journals The Health and Well-Being at Work Agenda: Good News for (Disabled) Workers or Just a Capital Idea?

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Foster
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Good News ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Disabled Workers ◽  
Health And Well Being

Health and well-being (H&WB) initiatives have increasingly appeared in workplaces, but are the subject of surprisingly little critical analysis. The terms H&WB have also become positively embedded in Human Resource Management (HRM) and academic vocabularies, often displacing disability, which, it is argued, is (wrongly) regarded as a negative descriptor. This article challenges the sometimes taken-for-granted assumption that employer-led H&WB initiatives are inherently positive. It considers how they are being used to undermine statutory trade union health and safety representatives, reinforce concepts of normalcy and ableism in respect of worker lifestyle and impairments, and individualize/medicalize experiences of workplace stress. Utilizing a critical disability studies lens debate challenges a dominant element of many H&WB programmes – employee resilience – and concludes that a social model of disability and workplace well-being is needed to focus debate on the social, economic and political causes of ill-health and dis-ability in workplaces under neo-liberal austerity.

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