Occupation Health and Safety

Running head: OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
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1OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
Question 1
Psychological stress can result in feelings of depression, insecurity and exhaustion on a
worker, which further leads to occupational burnout, or a sense of hopelessness, tiredness and
dissatisfaction associated with the workplace. This also results in increased susceptibility to
illnesses further leading to workplace absenteeism, loss of work hours and reduced occupational
productivity. It also leads to increased levels of pessimism and discouragement among workers
resulting in high employee turnover rates (Leung, Liang & Olomolaiye, 2015).
Question 2
One of the major causes of psychological stress at work has been attributed to high
workloads, excessively long working hours and requirement to overcome challenging deadlines
since these leave little room for rest, recreation and personal space for workers. Further,
horizontal as well as vertical bullying has been attributed to cause psychological stress among
workers. Thirdly, lack of autonomy where worker’s have little opportunity to voice their opinion
may also cause psychological stress at the workplace (Ferri et al., 2016).
Question 3
Individuals with Type A personality have been known to play a major role in the
acquisition of psychological stress at the workplace due to their preoccupation with goal
achievement, multitasking, proactive work ethics and excessive criticism of self, resulting in
uncontrolled feelings of impatience, short-temperedness, competitiveness and imposition
pressures upon oneself when encountered with demanding deadlines (Čukić et al., 2015).