Open AccessStudy to assess the level of stress and identification of significant stressors among the railway engine pilots
Author(s) -
Sumit Prakash,
Purushottam Khapre,
Subrata K Laha,
Nishant Saran
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5278.93201
Subject(s) - stressor , absenteeism , recreation , occupational stress , human factors and ergonomics , productivity , work (physics) , occupational safety and health , medicine , psychology , operations management , environmental health , poison control , applied psychology , engineering , psychiatry , clinical psychology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , pathology , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Increasing demands, exacting management, poor ergonomics, and intense competition within and without are likely to contribute to stress among the railway engine pilots. This excess of stress and its consequences cost very high to both the organization and the consumers.