Reducing Workplace Stress

The Stress an employee feels can adversely effect their job performance, lowering productivity and increasing the likelihood of accident and injury.Employees need to know how to recognize Stress-causing situations, as well as how to deal with the Stress that can result. In this way, they can learn to reduce the Stress in their lives and will be better able to perform their jobs.

CDC STRESS...At Work
The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. Perhaps now more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to the health of workers and, in turn, to the health organizations. Through its research program in job stress and through educational materials such as this booklet, NIOSH is committed to providing organizations with knowledge to reduce this threat.

APA Help Center Stress in the Workplace
Loss of a job affects every part of life, from what time you get up in the morning, to whom you see and what you can afford to do. Until the transition is made to a new position, stress is chronic. In today's economic upheavals, downsizing, layoff, merger, and bankruptcies have cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Millions more have been shifted to unfamiliar tasks within their companies and wonder how much longer they will be employed.

OSHA Fact Sheet Workplace Violence
Violence in the workplace is a serious safety and health issue. Its most extreme form, homicide, is the fourth-leading cause of fatal occupational injury in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there were 564 workplace homicides in 2005 in the United States, out of a total of 5,702 fatal work injuries.More...(Labor Statistics)

The American Institute of Stress
80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress. Numerous surveys and studies confirm that occupational pressures and fears are far and away the leading source of stress for American adults and that these have steadily increased over the past few decades.

National Workrights Institute
Workplace violence is an important but misunderstood problem.  The primary problem is not violence by workers, but violence against workers.  The most common form of workplace violence consists of attacks by outsiders against workers.  In light of this, the most important step in reducing workplace violence is to increase workplace security.

Training Material
When talking about major workplace safety and health problems, Stress is not necessarily something that most people think of. Yet studies show that a significant number of workplace accidents and injuries result from employees who are dealing with stressful situations.
Preventing Workplace Stress  learn what you can do to eliminate or control many of the Stress Factors in your life.