Abstract

MORENO JIMENEZ, Bernardo. Factors and occupational psychosocial risks: concept, history and current changes. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2011, vol.57, suppl.1, pp.4-19. ISSN 1989-7790.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0465-546X2011000500002.

Work has been historically a health risk. Working conditions have usually been a threat to health causing accidents and many kind of health-related diseases. The popular image associated with work has clearly been negative. Times have changed very significantly, but working conditions remain a concern. Concern about occupational risks has historically focused on environmental and physical risks, but there has been increasing attention on psychosocial risks which require a greater effort to be defined. In modern times, due to services market expansion and globalization, psychosocial risks have increased and intensified. Current data show that psychosocial risks cause important health effects. Therefore, it is important make special attention to psychosocial factors and risks.

Keywords : Occupational risks; Occupational Health; psychosocial risks; services market; globalization.

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