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Stress at work is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon affecting all categories of workers, all workplaces and all countries. It can have harmful consequences for physical, mental and social well-being. The ILO's work in this area shows that a systematic approach to stress prevention makes much more economic and health sense than a series of reactive treatments for afflicted individual workers.
An ILO publication, Preventing stress at work, presents and analyses 19 international case studies on dealing with stress at work, provides information on resources on preventing stress at work, including manuals and guidelines and an annotated bibliography on the subject, and sets out a multiple response preventive approach.
A series of working papers has been produced for workers in different high-risk occupations:
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