Over the last decades significant developments in the economic, political, technological, and social landscape have contributed to changing the nature of work and the way people work. Moreover, significant demographic and social changes have had an impact on working conditions contributing to the emergence of new risks for health at work. In this scenario, psychosocial risks have attracted the attention of occupational safety and health researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. These are defined as those aspects related to design, content, and management of work as well as its social context that can have a hazardous influence on employees’ health. They are considered as a contemporary challenge for health since their close ties with stress at work. There is evidence about the detrimental impact of work-related stress on workers’ health and safety, particularly with cardiovascular diseases, mental, and musculoskeletal disorders and well being. We invite authors to contribute original research and review articles focusing on work and psychosocial risks in the field of occupational health and safety. We are interested in articles exploring the impacts of psychosocial hazards in terms of workers health, well being and performance, and focusing on policy as well as company level interventions.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Job content and work organization
• Working conditions
• Social context at work
• Individual and organizational factors
• Multilevel approaches
• Impact on physical health
• Cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases lifestyles and mental health
• Positive resources and coping strategies
• Groups at risk
• Unemployment, precarious workers, and economic crisis
• Specific risks (bullying and harassment)
• Assessment and management of work-related stress risk
• Interventions evaluation for managing work-related stress risk
• Exposures to other hazards
• Economic impacts
• Health policies
• National and international approaches