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Spotlight:
Eighth International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health
External Link: http://www.apa.org/pi/work/wsh.html
November 4-7, 2009
Work, Stress, and Health 2009: Global Concerns and Approaches
Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Co-Sponsors:
American Psychological Association
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Society for Occupational Health Psychology
Overview
The primary themes in the NIOSH job stress research program:
- To better understand the influence of what are commonly-termed "work
organization" or "psychosocial" factors on stress, illness,
and injury
- To identify ways to redesign jobs to create safer and
healthier workplaces
Several specific examples of research topics at NIOSH fall within these two broad themes:
- Characteristics of healthy work organizations
- Work organization interventions to promote safe and healthy working
conditions
- Surveillance of the changing nature of work
- Work organization interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders
among office operators
- Work schedule designs to protect the health and well-being of workers
- The effects of new organizational policies and practices on worker
health and safety
- Changing worker demographics (race/ethnicity, gender, and age) and
worker safety and health
- Work organization, cardiovascular disease, and depression
- Psychological violence in the workplace
- The interplay between workplace psychosocial and musculoskeletal risk
factors
In addition, the NIOSH program also includes:
- Sponsorship of conferences on work, stress and health
- Support of graduate-level training in occupational health psychology
at national universities
- Publication of educational documents on work, stress, and health
Job Stress and NORA
In 1996, NIOSH established an interdisciplinary team of researchers
and practitioners from industry, labor, and academia to develop a national
research agenda on the "organization of work." Work organization
refers to management and supervisory practices, to production processes,
and to their influence on the way work is performed. (In this sense, the
study of work organization and health subsumes the field of job stress.)
This initiative is part of a broader, collaborative effort by NIOSH external
partners to spearhead a "National Occupational Research Agenda"
(NORA) to guide occupational safety and health research into the next decade,
not only for NIOSH, but for the entire U.S. occupational safety and health
community. During its tenure, the organization of work team has conferred
with academic, industry, and labor stakeholders to identify essential research
and other requirements to better understand how work organization is changing,
the safety and health implications of these changes, and prevention measures.
This effort culminated in the NIOSH report "The Changing Organization
of Work and the Safety and Health of Working People."
NIOSHTIC-2 Search
is a searchable bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and journal articles supported in whole or in part by NIOSH.
NIOSHTIC-2 search results on job stress
NIOSH Books and Videos about Stress
Working
with Stress Video
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2003-114d
A brief introduction to work stress issues for the worker and manager.
Topics include the causes of job stress, physical and psychological effects,
and what can be done to minimize job stress. The video is available in
both DVD and VHS formats, and can also be viewed online. (17 minutes)
Stress... At Work
Booklet
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 99-101 (1999)
This booklet highlights knowledge about the causes of stress at work
and outlines steps that can be taken to prevent job stress.
The Changing
Organization of Work... NORA Report
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2002-116 (April 2002)
This report was developed as the first attempt in the United States to
develop a comprehensive research agenda to investigate and reduce occupational
safety and health risks associated with the changing organization of work.
Four areas of research and development are targeted in the agenda.
Stress Management
in Work Settings
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 87-111 (May 1987)
This publication summarizes the scientific evidence and reviews conceptual
and practical issues relating to worksite stress management. It is a collection
of original contributions that address current issues and problems in
the field.
Worker
Health Chartbook 2004: Anxiety, Stress, and Neurotic Disorders
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2004-146 (2004)
Provides data for anxiety and stress disorders based on magnitude and
trend, age, sex race/ethnicity, severity, occupation, and industry.
Related NIOSH Pages
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