CRECEA China

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CRECEA China

• Healthy staff Healthy companies
• European and Chinese expertise
• - building on Chinese tradition and reality

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CRECEA China

• Healthy staff healthy companies
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Ergonomic conditions
• Chemical conditions
• Dust, noise and physical environment
• Risk of accidents
• Mental working environment
• Stress well being/job satisfaction
• Environment
• Labour Practices
• Audits, Consultancy,Training

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Stress at Danish workplaces

• a. A short historic review
• b. Todays view on stress
• - the 6 grains of gold
• - based on 2 diamonds
• Ways to prevent and/or manage stress
• How can we improve the mental working environment
  here in China?

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A short Historical review - 1

• 1950s The first Danish worker protection laws
  related to the physical working environment
• Focus on protection from hazards
• and rights when hit by accidents (when it was
  to late)
• Student riots
• 1970s Worker-Academic corporation
• painters syndrome (brain damage)
• - the first Danish guidance about working
  environment
• - Focus on the psycho-social working
  environment
• The company is the patient - not the
  individual

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A short Historical review - 2

• 1970s New legislation
• - Occupational Health Service System
• - Research in occupational health
• National Research Centre for the working
  environment
• (NFA / NRCWE)
• 1980s More and more focus on Psycho-social
  working environment
• 1990s COPSOQ (The Copenhagen Psychosocial
  Questionnaire)
• 2000 Demands to the mental working environment
• from the National Working Environment
  Authority

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A short Historical review - 3

• The view on work related stress now
• Stress in the organisation means a lot of costs
• - lower quality
• - bad performance (hidden knowledge - loss of
  know how)
• - increased absence
• The patient is both
• - the company
• - the working group (the job family)
• - the individual

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Definitions on stress

• A natural needed reaction
• to a dangerous situation or threat
• An Unbalance
• Between Demands Resources
• High level of Stress hormone Cortisone
• in the blood

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KARASEKs MODEL
Resources
Demands
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Job satisfaction research

• Research shows
• 6 important factors
• to avoid and prevent stress
• Called the 6 grains of Gold

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Job satisfaction - stress prevention

• The 6 grains of Gold
• Influence (control)
• Social support
• Meaning / sense
• Predictability
• Reward
• Job Demands

Bases on the diamonds Trust Justice
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Identifying stress if necessary

• Using a survey questionnaire (like copsoq)
• Interviews - Individual
• - Group wise
• Or just use the tools
• to improve the mental working environment

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Identifying stress if necessary

• Using a survey questionnaire (like copsoq)
• Interviews - Individual
• - GroupWise
• Or just use the tools
• to improve the mental working environment
• Put focus on
• improving the working environment
• and the employees performance

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Stress prevention and management 1

• Closely related to the daily work and the
  job-family
• The purpose is to make a good mental working
  environment
• and hereby add value to the organisation
• Individual sessions
• job demands, relations at work, family
  relations, physical training
• Group sessions
• Sharing experiences making common solutions
• The organisation (colleagues, leaders etc)
• Feedback or push-back to the organisation

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Stress prevention and management 2

• Focus on
• solutions - instead of problems
• the present and the future - bringing with us the
  best from the past
• de-privatising bringing things into common
• Typical questions for exercises
• What is working? Can we do anything better?
• What characterises a good day at work?
• What did we do when we handled a similar task
  well?
• How can we get more of that which is working well?

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Stress prevention and management 3

• How does stress influence on you?
• In which situations is stress managing you
• instead of you managing the stress?
• What is happening in these situations?
• What influence do other people have on you in
  these situations?
• What do your colleagues do that reduces the
  stress for you?
• What makes you especially vulnerable to stress?
• Which conclusions do you make about your own
  stress
• according to your experiences (above)?

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Stress prevention and management 4

• Listen to yourself and your body
• Do you know what indicates for you, that you are
  going to be stressed?
• - bad sleeping?
• - pain in the chest?
• - pain in the back?
• - glimpsing very much your eyes?
• - stomach problems?
• Do you have experiences from situations where you
  succeeded to stop your stress?
• What did you do in these situations?
• What is your contribution to reduce stress among
  others?

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10 shortcuts to get stressed

• Remember to get upset
• Do all work yourself
• Be in a hurry
• Make sure you have too short deadlines
• Get to bed late in the evening
• Make sure you dont miss anything at all
• Make sure no one knows more than you
• Keep on criticising all your colleagues
• Take everything very serious
• Make sure you take on all the jobs you can get

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