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SM:
Stress
Management in Risk Situations
Responsible: CST
Assistance:
ICS, NIEB, PRO,
SMU,
all
Partners
In the European Foundation’s 1996 and
2000 surveys of working conditions, 28% of the workers reported stress-related
problems, a figure exceeded only by musculoskeletal complaints (30% and 33%
respectively). Furthermore, studies in the EU and beyond suggest that between
50% and 60% of all lost working days are related to stress.
This represents a huge cost in terms of both human distress and impaired
economic performance. Besides the serious effects on workers’ mental and
physical health, the impact of work stress is obvious in ‘organizational
symptoms’ such as high levels of absenteeism and labor turnover, poor safety
performance, low employee morale, a lack of innovation and poor productivity.
Foundation
for the development of practical, scientifically-validated tools and
technologies that enable people to improve their health, performance, and
quality of life by lowering the stress is the main objective of this JPA.
Basic research on emotional physiology and heart-brain interactions, clinical
studies, and research on the physiology of learning and performance will be
conducted as well.