BioMed Research International

Psychosocial Factors and Workers Health and Safety


Publishing date
05 Jun 2015
Status
Published
Submission deadline
16 Jan 2015

Lead Editor

1European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP), Rome, Italy

2University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

3National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Atlanta, USA

4The University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy

5The University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia


Psychosocial Factors and Workers Health and Safety

Description

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

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 213089
  • - Review Article

An Evaluation of the Policy Context on Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health in the Workplace in the European Union: Achievements, Challenges, and the Future

Stavroula Leka | Aditya Jain | ... | Cristina Di Tecco
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 596572
  • - Research Article

Prognostic Factors of Returning to Work after Sick Leave due to Work-Related Common Mental Disorders: A One- and Three-Year Follow-Up Study

Bo Netterstrøm | Nanna Hurwitz Eller | Marianne Borritz
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 431725
  • - Research Article

Burnout Is Associated with Reduced Parasympathetic Activity and Reduced HPA Axis Responsiveness, Predominantly in Males

Wieke de Vente | Jan G. C. van Amsterdam | ... | Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 643192
  • - Research Article

Associations between Distal Upper Extremity Job Physical Factors and Psychosocial Measures in a Pooled Study

Matthew S. Thiese | Kurt T. Hegmann | ... | Arun Garg
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 836967
  • - Research Article

Effects of a Workplace Intervention Targeting Psychosocial Risk Factors on Safety and Health Outcomes

Leslie B. Hammer | Donald M. Truxillo | ... | Amy Richman
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 414832
  • - Research Article

The Context, Process, and Outcome Evaluation Model for Organisational Health Interventions

Annemarie Fridrich | Gregor J. Jenny | Georg F. Bauer
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 673623
  • - Research Article

Consequences of Job Insecurity on the Psychological and Physical Health of Greek Civil Servants

Dimitra Nella | Efharis Panagopoulou | ... | Alexis Benos
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 197156
  • - Research Article

Do Italian Companies Manage Work-Related Stress Effectively? A Process Evaluation in Implementing the INAIL Methodology

Cristina Di Tecco | Matteo Ronchetti | ... | Sergio Iavicoli
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