WORK /Average human spends 4,130 days 590 week 1/3 of life at work

Question 1

Potential hazard types in the work environment include:

Answer 1

Biological, ergonomic, psychological exposures

Question 2

JOB STRAIN:

Answer 2

Karasek’s job strain model (1979) explains that: a high strain job is where there is high demand, but the worker has little discretionary power to control that demand (ie. low control)

Question 3

JOB STRESSORS:

Answer 3

structural and environmental (condition hot cold, posture)
• Career concern
• Confusion over job roles: not being sure about what your responsibility is.
• Stressful interpersonal relationships: when people do not want to listen
• Management style: not being support by management
• Job features and design: long working hours.

Job stress is cause by two main factors:
• High demand and pressure at work
• Low latitude, decision- making, power, or control in meeting those demands

Question 4

JOB STRESS:

Answer 4

identifies as a risk factor for the development of several conditions, namely CVD and depression
• Stressors (are usually dealt with through OH & S interventions) versus stress itself (more complex todeal with – often multiple factors involved)
• Bad news for organisations: increased sickness,
lower productivity, higher worker’s compensation
• Psychosocial versus physical

Question 5

Systems-based approaches to reducing stress

Answer 5

• Fostering a culture of workplace support and providing solutions.
• Specific discussions related to workload or workload conflict, rather than ‘stress’
. • Collective efforts seen to be more helpful to create change than individual efforts (workload, pressure, bullying).
• Challenges to this model are individual contract arrangements which tend to undermine a sense of belonging

Question 6

The individual approach to occupational stress has been heavily criticised for blaming the victim.

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

Settings approach to HEALTH PROMOTION:

Answer 7

‘Improving health where we live, work
and play.

Policies in the workplace such as equal
*opportunity & anti-discrimination;
*supportive leave policies eg parenting
leave for fathers, anti bullying

Question 8

Working poor are those…

Answer 8

Who are involuntarily working less than full-time
Who are in temporary jobs
Who are employed casually
Whose hours vary at the employer’s whim