Essay On Working Conditions

Impact of working conditions on health

INTRODUCTION :

Working condition has been developed through years: flexibility requirement, and need of mobility and responsibility have increased, productions and communications processes have been speed up, work became more precarious. The psychological pressure, which is exercised over employees, also, becomes more and more important.
Those modifications require employees to surpass themselves and to adapt themselves at every time to new work conditions. This is difficult for employees to assume; hence the report of an augmentation of health issues directly is directly lead to work conditions.
At the level of industry, one of the first consequences is the decreased of the productivity and competitively of

Suicide attempts present a higher percentage among women (6,9% against 3,1% among men).
However, the suicidal mortality rate is higher among men.
The Social professional category, which feels the most concerned about it, is: laborer.
We talk about work stress when a person experiences an imbalance between what he is asked to do in the workplace and the resources available to meet them. Stressful situations that settle over time always have a cost to the health of individuals who suffers it. They also have a negative impact on the operation of enterprises (turnover, lost workdays, loss of quality of production, lack of motivation...).
Work more than eleven hours a day increases the risk of depression, as much as unemployment.
However stress is not only a bad thing it can become a good thing too.
According to various ideas, good stress would allow employees to give the best of themselves, while bad stress would lead to illness or a poor work. Yet there is scientifically neither good nor bad stress but a phenomenon of adaptation of the body made necessary by the environment. We must however differentiate "acute stress" and "chronic stress" that have different effects on