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C07 Kelloway MOHS8e Final
C07 Kelloway MOHS8e Final
C07 Kelloway MOHS8e Final
Presentation for
Management of
Occupational Health
and Safety
Prepared by
Bernadette Gatien
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Psychological factors:
• Levels of self-esteem and anxiety, as
well as the ability to cope with
pressure
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Stressors
• Stressor
– Objectively
verifiable
event that
occurs outside
the individual
that has the
potential to
cause stress
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Stressors
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Acute
Chronic
Categories:
Daily
Vary according to
frequency, duration,
intensity, and
specificity of onset
Catastrophic
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Stressors
• Daily
– Specific onset
– Short duration
– Low in
intensity
– Infrequent
– Example:
• Dealing
Stressors with a
broken
piece of
office
equipmen
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Stressors
• Catastrophic
– Specific onset
– Occur infrequently
– High intensity
– Long or short duration
– Distinction between acute and
catastrophic relates to intensity of the
stressor
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• NIOSH model identifies major categories:
Stressors – Workload and work pace
– Role stressors
in the – Career concerns
– Work scheduling
Workplace – Interpersonal relations
– Job content and control
Stress
arousal
• General Adaptation Syndrome
– The body’s way of gearing up for fight
or flight
(i.e., to confront or run away from a
predator)
Moderator
• Variable that changes the Moderators (factors)
relationship between other affect people’s
variables evaluations of stressors
• Some aggravate or increase
and how they react to
the effects of stressors
• Others can protect individual them (i.e., degree of
from adverse effects of stress experienced)
stressors
Physical
Strain
Behavioural
Organizational
out”
• Minimizing negative
consequences once a person is
feeling stress
Tertiary Interventions
• Malfunctions
• Isolation
• Privacy
• Increased job demands
• Increased expectations for
continuous learning
• Work–Family Conflict
– Inter-role conflict in
which the role
pressures experienced
in the work and family
domains are
incompatible
• Work-to-Family Conflict
– Work–family conflict in
which work demands
interfere with the
fulfillment of family
responsibilities
• Family-to-Work Conflict
– Work–family conflict in
which family demands
interfere with the
fulfillment of work
responsibilities
– Psychological involvement
• The degree to which a person identifies with a particular role and
sees the role as a central component of his or her self-concept