Occupational stress and stress prevention in specific occupations

Stress prevention at the workplace has proved particularly effective in combating stress, by attacking its roots and causes, rather than merely treating its effects. In line with such an approach, this series of working papers is aimed at providing concrete advice on how to prevent stress in specific occupations particularly exposed to stress. For each occupation considered, the paper indicates a number of preventive measures targeted to the elimination of the causes of stress, rather than the treatment of its effects, and how these measures can become an integral part of the necessary organizational development of a sound enterprise and eventually pay for themselves.

The series includes the following working papers:

• Dr. V.J Sutherland and Profesor C.L. Cooper,
  University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  Stress prevention in the offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry
• Professor G. Costa, University of Verona, Italy
  Occupational stress and stress prevention in air traffic control
• Professor T. Cox and Dr. A. Griffiths, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
  Professor S. Cox, Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom
  Work-related stres in nursing: Controlling the risk to health
• Professor M.A.J Kompier, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
  Occupational stress and stress prevention for bus drivers
• Dr. S. Kvamström, Asea Brown Boveri, Sweden
  Stress prevention for blue-collar workers in assembly-line production

As the series is intended to stimulate action at enterprise level, its primary audience will consist of managers, supervisors, workers, workers' representatives and engineers who have a concrete interest in introducing anti-stress programmes within their enterprise and an open approach to improvements and change. The series is also directed at policy-makers, as well as government officials and workers' and employers' organizations with a direct interest in this area.