Summary Organizational Psychology 3.6 Occupational Health and Safety
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Course
FSWP3089A
Institution
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR)
The document "3.6 Occupational Health and Safety" offers an in-depth analysis of workplace health and safety, focusing on the psychological impacts of work stress and job burnout. It discusses the physiological and cognitive effects of stress, including models like the fight or flight response and ...
OHP concerns the application of psychology to improve the quality of working life,
and to protect and promote the safety, health, and well-being of workers
● Promote positive health effects → work engagement, safety
● Prevent negative health effects → stress/burnout, accidents
(Work) Stress: Effects
Health
● Stress has serious physical consequences
,Society
● It’s not only a problem limited to the individual → affects society (and us) in
general
Percentage of people that drop out of jobs for different causes (2018):
➢ the older you get → the less psychological and more physical are reasons to quit
your job
➔ could be that young people have fewer resources to deal with stress
, ➔ could be because they experienced work stress for a longer time
➔ could be that for younger people using psychological reasons is
perceived as more acceptable
Biology
● Increase blood to muscles → less blood available to organs → e.g. before exam
you need to go to the toilet often but don’t experience hunger
Cognitions
Experiment:
Method 1:
, ➢ self report → reflects congitions
Results for three groups:
1. Clinical burnout → highest self-related failures
2. Burnout at work → higher than healthy controls → something happaned at work
that is causing changes in their cognition
3. Healthy controls → report these failures to some extent
Method 2:
● Computer test → more objective measures
Results:
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