Work Related Stress Increases Health and Safety Accidents
Stress is a common factor in health and safety at work. Working when one is stressed can increase the number of minor and major injuries and lead to work related deaths. A professor carried out various studies with regards to stress at the work place to show how important relieving stress can be no matter the cause. The research may be new, but it can be considered timeless considering the history of stress and work related incidents. There is a reason that some cultures believe life centres are a better creation for the workplace than to go with a normal, boring office. It is because too much stress can lead to injury, death, illness, and accidents.
A worker who is stressed may actually another employee. This is what is most worrying about stress in the work place. A worker that is overstressed may create a situation for an accident that actually harms another person they work with. It could be an issue of forgetting the other person is working on a machine such as cleaning it and having the stressed worker turning it back on. The point is that companies looking at workstation risk assessments also need to consider their employees.
If the employee has a place they can de-stress on a break or when they feel fatigued or upset, it may make the workplace safer. At the very least, if the manager in charge of risk assessments is aware of workers being overstressed they may be able to stop an accident before it happens.
