ストレス社会をどう生き抜くか : 産業医からの提言

Occupational health deals with all aspects of health and safety in the workplace and has a strong focus on primary prevention of hazards. An influential strategy is occupational risk assessment-the structured and systematic identification and analysis of workplace hazards to assess their potential risks to health and determine appropriate control measures to protect the health and wellbeing of workers. Based on the accumulated evidence using occupational stress models, risk assessment of psychosocial risk factors at workplace, i.e., occupational stress, has become possible. In addition, recent controlled trials indicate that worker participatory organizational interventions have beneficial effects on psychosocial work environment and psychological distress. Occupational risk assessment by workers themselves can provide a cue to survive the current stressful work environment.