Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Contract Research Reports
The practice of systematic assessment of psychosocial hazards in
the workplace is required under health and safety legislation. A
series of qualitative and diary studies showed that people do have
elaborate mental models of phychosocial hazards; that these mental
models predict subsequent levels of important personal and
organisational phenomena such as well-being and performance; and
that variation in mental models of psychosocial hazards might be
explained by a limited number of dimensions. An instrument to
assess mental models of psychosocial hazards has been developed and
validated. Explains the implications of a cognitive approach for
psychosocial risk management, and how to use the
instrument.
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