The Univeristy of València has sent all of its workers (PDI and PAS) a survey that allows to evaluate the different aspects of the conditions and organisation of work that can affect health. The aim of this questionnaire, which is available at the Virtual Classroom, is to improve prevention policies, for which everybody's participation is necessary in order to obtain more relevant results.
The survey, called ISTAS 21, is part of the Labour Risk Prevention Plan of the Universirty. A commission made up by representatives of the academic institution and five trade unions, has adapted the ISTAS-21 method to the Univeristy.
The members of the comission include Matilde Sancho (STEPV), José Luis Granero (UGT), Amat Sánchez (CCOO), Asunción Martínez (CSIF) and Goretti García (CGT), Martía José Vidal, Rosendo Pou, Jpsé Manuel Tomás and Gema Fabregat.
The University of Valencia currently employs aprox. 4,000 teachers and researches and 1,800 administrative and service employees.
The conditions and organisation of work can affect people's healthcare through psicological machanisms. When negative organisation factors arise, they can generate high stress levels, which can lead to illness. Affected people can show psychic demonstrations, such as fatigue, anxiety, depression and/or phisiological alterations of different systems, phyiscal fatigue or somatisation disorder.
There is enoguh evidence that suggest that an express of psichological requirements, lack of control over work, and lack of social support (from both the bosses and co-workers), as well as the lack of compensation, are some of the factors of health risk. The aim is to identify these risk factors in the workplace and thus be able to control them. For this, it is necessary, in the first place, an risk evaluation to be carried out (as required by law) of the psychosocial risk factors.
When we talk about psychosocial risks, we also include issues such as stress or labour violence, and within this, mobbing, everyday more common.
This analysis of the current situation is also part of the psychosocial health programme of the framework 'Campus Sostenible' from the University of València, which is part of the Strategic Plan 2012-2015.
The results will be compared to those obtained eight years ago using the same methodology and they will allow to evalute the evolution and efficency of preventive measures put into place during this period.
Last update: 23 de april de 2013 12:00.
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