Psychosocial risks

The National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NFA [1]) recently published the results from a substantial research project entitled ‘Psycho-social work environment, mental health and working capacity (in Danish) [2]’, carried out between 2007 and 2010. The study reveals that work-related

Richard Berglund, a social scientist at the Department of Work Science at the University of Gothenburg [1], followed three companies during four years for his doctoral thesis while these companies introduced ‘lean production’. Lean production entails a continuous process of quality and improvement

Research by the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia (Inštitut za varovanje zdravja [1]) into the impact of the economic crisis on absenteeism found that those industries reported to be most affected by the crisis also underwent substantial changes in sick leave rates. Analysis of

The Trades Union Congress (TUC [1]) published the findings from its latest survey of health and safety representatives [2] in October 2010. A major part of the survey is designed to provide an indication of the hazards that health and safety representatives must deal with and the problems they face

In February 2011, the French Agency for Studies, Research and Statistics (Dares, [1] part of the Ministry of Work, Employment and Health [2]) published the results of a study (in French, 187Kb PDF) [3] on night work [4] in France in 2009, including a comparison with the extent of night work in 1991

A theoretical framework of participatory action research developed by Associate Professor Sirpa Syvänen of the Tampere University School of Management in Finland during the course of her postgraduate studies (Syvänen, 2003) was used to examine the culture at workplaces in the social sector providing

According to the effort–reward imbalance (ERI) model (see Siegrist et al, 2004), effort at work is reciprocated by adequate reward as part of a social contract. Rewards are transmitted in the following three ways:

Operations in the petroleum industry require continuous shift schedules. Although some health effects are known to result from shift work, less is known about its effect on the social and family life of the workers.