OBJECTIVE To explore the literature regarding prevention of depression in the workplace. METHOD Literature review of what the author believes are seminal articles highlighting workplace factors and interventions in preventing depression in the workplace. RESULTS Employees can help prevent depression by building protective factors such as better coping and stress management skills. Employees...

The present study was conducted to investigate workplace violence and to examine how it is associated with quality of life (QOL) among medical professionals in China. A total of 2,464 medical professionals were selected from Fujian Province and Henan Province by using stratified cluster-sampling method. A Chinese version of the workplace violence scale was used to measure the incidence of workp...

Workplace violence presents a substantial and increasing risk to employee health and wellbeing. In particular, healthcare professionals are at heightened risk of workplace bullying, also commonly known as mobbing, aggression, emotional abuse, lateral violence, horizontal violence, undermining and incivility etc. It is therefore often argued that bullying has become ‘endemic’ within healthcare. ...

background: hairdressers are occupationally exposed to a number of agents in their workplace that result in respiratory symptoms and changes in pulmonary function. objective: to evaluate associations between occupational exposure and respiratory function and reported symptoms in a group of hairdressers compared to a control group. methods: a questionnaire on respiratory symptoms and workplace c...

employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...

This article presents an analysis of workplace health programme discourses within an international information technology company. Discourse refers to a system of statements that share a common force and coherence and which are socially constitutive. The representation of entities such as workplace health can be subject to competition between discourses. A critical discourse analysis was undert...

The aim of this study was to show the proportion of workplace accidents related to materials transfer and to decide whether they were more serious than other kinds of workplace accidents. The research material for this study were statistics and data, available in Finland, regarding workplace accidents and fatal accidents. Twenty-five percent of studied fatal accidents were related to materials ...

The present study was to evaluate workplace violence and examine its effect on job burnout and turnover attempt among medical staff in China. A total of 2,020 medical employees were selected from Fujian province by using stratified cluster sampling method. The Chinese version of the Workplace Violence Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey were used to measure the workplace viol...

Starter activities • Ask the students what is meant by ‘health and safety in the workplace’. Ask them to give you some examples • Using the factsheet, describe to the students what a work environment used to be like. Ask for their ideas on how they would expect a workplace to differ today • Ask the students why health and safety in the workplace is important. Read out the case study to emphasis...

background workplace violence is one of the factors which can strongly reduce job satisfaction and the quality of working life of nurses. the aim of this study was to measure nurses’ exposure to workplace violence in one of the major teaching hospitals in tehran in 2010.   methods we surveyed the nurses in a cross-sectional design in 2010. the questionnaire was adapted from a standardized quest...