PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Occupational Stress, Coronary Artery Disease, Avoidance Coping
Document Summary
Occupational health psychology applies psychology in organizational setting to improve work life, safety, and healthy work or how workplace practices affects employees physical and psychological well-being. Occupational health and safety identifying and controlling the physical and psychosocial hazards in the work environment. Statute legal foundation that employers must comply. Regulations establish the framework as to what the employer must do in order to comply with the law. The vast majority of workers are regulated by provincial legislation. Those responsible for health and safety: 1) employers, owners, and contractors 2) supervisors: workers 4)joint health and safety committee. Job stress process in which we have an effective reaction to job demands. Niosh viewed occupational stress as leading cause of workplace death, and viewed occupational stress as an epidemic . Workplace stress leads to costs, and negative consequences for individuals and organizations. Tends to identify stimuli that may tax an individual or damage them in some way.
