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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1414695
This article is part of the Research Topic Innovative Prevention Strategies for Occupational Health Hazards View all 14 articles

Development of the process of determining essential hazardous psychosocial factors of employee stress risk

Provisionally accepted
Oleg Bazaluk Oleg Bazaluk 1Vitalii Tsopa Vitalii Tsopa 2Serhii Cheberiachko Serhii Cheberiachko 3Oleg Deryugin Oleg Deryugin 3Olha Nesterova Olha Nesterova 3Svitlana Sokurenko Svitlana Sokurenko 3Vasyl Lozynskyi Vasyl Lozynskyi 3*
  • 1 Belt and Road Initiative Center for Chinese-European Studies (BRICCES), Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China
  • 2 International Management Institute (MIM-Kyiv), Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 3 Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine

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    The purpose of the study is to determine the impact of hazardous psychosocial factors on stress among employees when performing production tasks to develop recommendations for reducing their impact. Based on the recommendations of the ISO 45003:2021 standard, a special questionnaire was developed to determine hazardous psychosocial factors that lead to the appearance of worker’s stress, the answers to which were evaluated on a Likert scale with points from 0 to 4. 68 workers (23 men and 45 women) aged 20 to 45 took part in the survey conducted at industrial enterprises of the Dnipro region in May-June 2023. A questionnaire was developed to identify significant psychosocial hazardous factors in personnel at an industrial enterprise, which includes three groups of psychosocial hazardous factors and consists of thirty questions. A ten-step process for managing significant hazardous psychosocial risks is proposed. It was established that women pay more attention to challenges (psychosocial hazardous factors) that are associated with the organization of work (uncertainty at work, lack of breaks due to workload) and social problems (disrespect, disrespect and inattention to employees, unreasonable behavior towards you by leadership); for men, a significant group of hazardous psychosocial factors is - equipment, working environment, hazardous tasks (fear of performing hazardous work; work is associated with a significant risk to life). The novelty consists in the justification of the process of identifying essential psychosocial factors, which will allow managers to systematically monitor the state of mental health of employees, the psychological climate in the organization and respond in a timely manner to expected problems and develop corrective actions to normalize the situation. The process of managing significant hazardous psychosocial risks has been developed, which consists of ten steps and differs from the known procedure of identifying significant hazardous psychosocial factors on a Likert scale, considering the answers of women and men.

    Keywords: psychosocial risk, stress, social factors, Work organization, Hazards, health psychosocial risk, Health

    Received: 09 Apr 2024; Accepted: 27 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bazaluk, Tsopa, Cheberiachko, Deryugin, Nesterova, Sokurenko and Lozynskyi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Vasyl Lozynskyi, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine

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