Occupational Stress

Welcome to the Stress Free Zone

MKA: Risk Mitigation can help make your workplace as a stress free zone by:

• Conducting organisational climate surveys.
• Running occupational stress prevention training.
• Leading lunchtime / breakfast seminars on time management, depression management and anxiety management.
• Providing Employee Assistance Programs.
• Evaluating job design and workplace processes.

Our products are based on industry surveys, current organisational behaviour research and relevant NSW and Federal Industrial Relations Commission decisions.

What is Occupational Stress?

Occupational stress is a leading cause of absenteeism in Australia and is contributing to an increasing number of workers’ compensation claims. Occupational stress undermines personal productivity, as well as impacting on employees quality of life and providing society with a major health issue.

Occupational stress has been described as any factor within the work environment contributing to poor psychological or physical health or psychological strain.

Adverse consequences of occupational stress range from depression, anxiety, tension, burnout, alcohol abuse, unexplained physical symptoms and sick building syndrome, chronic fatigue, accidents, repetitive strain injury, increased daily hassles, days absent, visits to medical practitioners and lower overall ratings of health.