Evaluation of General health and job stress survey in civil project employees, 2015

Currently a considerable part of manufacturing systems work in shifting hours. This can increase fatigue and sleep disorders, which can affect human health. Since the health of staff that has increased the efficiency of the whole system. This paper aimed to determine the relationship between shift work and sleep quality with public health in Kaavian steel companies Khozestan.
This study is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in a construction industry. 118 workers were selected randomly as a sample group. Research tools were a checklist for demographic information and two valid and reliable general health (GHQ28) and job stress (HSE) questionnaires. In order to grading questions was used Likert method. For data analyzing used one-way analysis of variance, ANOVA and T-independent and software SPSS version 21.
91% of people in at least one of the subscales of job stress were in undesirable condition. 33.1% of workers in terms of general health status were abnormal. There was significant relationship between general health and job stress variables (p=0.001).
Prevalence of job stress among workers of construction projects is high. On the other hand, based on results, job stress has negative effect on general health of workers. Therefore, for achieving to better general health of workers, we would have special attention to job stress issue. One of the controlling approaches we can suggest the employees is applying of occupational health engineers and intensifying of supervision of health centers of university of medical sciences on construction projects.