Assessment of Psychosocial Risks at Work in Staff of Clothing Stores

Abstract

AbstractPsychosocial working conditions assume more and more importance in terms of occupational safety and health, which is why it is important to perform risk assessments that address the psychosocial factors at work. This text summarises and discusses the results of a psychosocial risk assessment conducted among Staff workers from a clothing trading company operating in Portugal. A consistent strategy of analysis and assessment of the psychosocial risks was put in place, which involved different data collection procedures (reports on safety activities, technical meetings, interviews, questionnaire to workers, etc.) and the application of the SSARA Method—Simplified Risk Assessment System adapted to psychosocial risks. The methodological procedure used made it possible to obtain a map of psychosocial risks for the Staff activity in each of the company’s ten stores. The results show that the activity evaluated presents in general an acceptable incidence of psychosocial risks at work, since most of the risk factors evaluated fall under this category (63.5%) and there is no very high incidence of any risk factors. A positive psychosocial work environment in the stores evaluated was confirmed, which results from the good occupational safety and health policies and practices put in place by the company.KeywordsOccupational safety and healthPsychosocial working conditionsSSARA methodPortugal