Prevalence of Occupational Stress And Its Relationship to Individual Characteristics in Tunneling Industry Workers

Today job stress is one of the important phenomena of social life and a serious threat to the health of the workforce in the world. This study has been done with the aim of assess the prevalence of occupational stress and its relationship with the individual characteristics of workers in these industries.

This descriptive، cross-sectional study has been done in winter 2011; on 145 of the 450 employees working on a tunneling project located in the city of Karaj. In order to determine job stress the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) standard questionnaire has been used. For data analysis SPSS software Version 16 has been used and chi-square tests، Student’s t-test، and one-way analysis of variance were performed.

There was a significant relationship between job stress، and exercise، job-related education، and job experience (P < 0. 05). Therefore، people with job-related education، no job experience، and people who were accustomed to exercise had lower mean job stress. There was a significant correlation between job stress، and age، marital status، educational level، smoking، chronic disease، and body mass index (P > 0. 05).

Paying attention to job stress in the construction industry is essential. Training and exercise in construction projects can reduced job stress