Work stress and psychosocial risk factors

Resolution 2646 of 2008 aims to provide the parameters in the identification of psychosocial risks at work, that as a result of occupational stress, this paper presents a concise and understandable to the employee in general, the meaning of the factors psychosocial risk and the impact that they can come to have on your health. The Ministry of Protection included in the table of occupational diseases and diseases resulting from work stress, and this is supported by the protocol for determining the origin of diseases resulting from stress and battery of instruments to assess risk factors counseling and help in making decisions to the professionals working on determining the origin of stress-related illnesses and whether they are of common origin or professional. For this case, the companies must allocate human and financial resources for the identification, evaluation, prevention, intervention and monitoring of these risks psicolaborales is employer's responsibility to ensure the health of their employees, failure as determined by the Ministry will be penalty in accordance with the provisions of subparagraphs a and c of Article 91 of Decree similar to Law 1295 of 1994.