Work-related stress in three groups with specific homogeneous tasks

In relation to the medico-social and medico-legal aspects of stress wehave studied the effects of stress on different working populations.Background: Stress is the second most common work-related healthproblem, affecting about 22% of workers in the EU. The European Agencyfor Safety and Health at Work (2000) defines work-related stress as acondition that "occurs when the demands of the work environment exceedthe ability of workers to cope with it". In the evaluation of thiswork-related stress it is of fundamental importance to identify thefactors capable of generating and increasing it in order to identifycategories of subjects particularly at risk and plan interventions forthe prevention, elimination or reduction of risk. Material and methods:Tasks analysed:-Administrative (n.519) -Drivers/porters/doormen/workers (n.103)-Social workers/educators/teachers (n. 31) Subjective: Stress was firstassessed in the three groups, and then stratification by sex was carriedout, assessing stress in the male-female subgroups.Results: The new and original results allow the correction of situationsdefined as critical, through original and new, preventive, neverapplied, protocols, which are at the forefront of the preventivetechnological procedures already known.Conclusions: Our research showed that for most of the tasks analysed, inthe various and specific tasks in comparison with each other, neverstudied before and compared with each other, the level of stress forsome areas was found in comparison to be much higher in some tasks.