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Introduction

Contemporary community awareness and concern about the issue of stress and violence at work have been magnified to a significant degree by more and more attention given in the media to several dramatic and sometimes tragic workplace incidents perpetrated by disturbed individuals. The problems of stress and violence at work are slowly but surely emerging as a new challenge requiring the attention and

resources of employers and managers. Taken together stress and violence could be responsible for a great number of occupational accidents and diseases leading to death, illness and incapacity. In many countries the related problems have been shown to affect all sectors and all categories or employees.

There is considerable cost for the individual employee relating to these problems in terms of physical and mental health problems, employment implications and the risk of job loss. For the enterprises, these problems result in direct costs, such as increased absenteeism, staff turnover, reduced productivity, training and retraining, as well as in indirect costs, such as reduced motivation, satisfaction and creativity and public

relations problems. Their overall impact greatly reduces the competitiveness of the enterprise. What is known probably represents only the tip of the iceberg. The costs relating to these problems are only beginning to be understood and quantified.

There are three basic questions that need to be answered. What is the nature of stress and violence at work? Does work stress and violence affect health and well-being and, if so how? What can be done to eliminate or reduce these problems? This Guidance on the Prevention of Stress and Violence at Work has been prepared to answer these

questions. Employers, employees and their respective organisations are encourage to use this guidance, implement and continually refine their actions and programmes to eliminate and control the problems of stress and violence at work.

Full article may be downloaded here.

Cheers

Prof.Lakshman

From Sri Lanka, Kolonnawa
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