Alert: work stress

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The Regional Institute for Occupational Health and Safety of the Community of Madrid is issuing this alert in the awareness that anxiety, frustration and emotional tension as a result of stress are increasing in the current work environment.

The IRSST's functions include providing advice and technical support to employers, workers, organizations, agencies and social agents. Specifically, the Psychosocial Technical Unit offers advice and intervention in psychosocial matters applied to the prevention of occupational risks, focusing on individual damages (general stress, burnout syndrome, etc.) and collective damages, derived from organizational aspects and working conditions.

The IRSST Technical Training and Awareness Unit also organises, within its training catalogue, various activities that offer tools to identify and manage highly emotional situations that arise in the workplace.

advisory campaigns

Campaign for advice and analysis of reports of non-traumatic accidents caused or aggravated by work (heart attacks or strokes)

Advice and analysis campaign on non-traumatic accident reports caused or aggravated by work issued through the Social Security computer program PANOTRATSS, in cases of pathologies classified as heart attacks and strokes, mainly when they have resulted in death.

The objective of the campaign is to observe preventive management and health management in cases declared as work accidents due to non-traumatic pathologies. The presence of traditional risk factors, the condition and content of work and the presence of psychosocial risk factors (psychosocial stressors) in the work environment, of an adverse nature for the worker and which could cause stress, will be assessed.

Campaign for advice and analysis of reports of non-traumatic accidents caused or aggravated by work (mental disorders)

Advice and analysis campaign on non-traumatic accident reports caused or aggravated by work issued through the PANOTRATSS Social Security computer program, in cases of pathologies classified as “mental disorders”.

The association between exposure to psychosocial risk factors and damage to mental health in the workplace is analysed in order to guide possible preventive interventions that should be undertaken in these contexts. To do so, the psychosocial management actions implemented by the company and the prevention measures established after the accident are verified.

Agreement with the Official College of Psychology of Madrid

In 2020, the IRSST signed a collaboration agreement with the Official College of Psychology of Madrid called the Aula Project: Prevention of Psychosocial Risks, whose main objective was to provide technical knowledge in the management of psychosocial risk factors and improve the competence of those responsible for action and management in psychosocial preventive intervention.

For this purpose, informative-training pills were carried out, in video format, and guides in PDF format on work stress, its management, evaluation or prevention and intervention measures in these situations. In addition, conferences were held in format webinar addressing psychosocial well-being at work, healthy leadership or psychosocial risks in digital transformation, among other topics.