Evaluate how technology in the workplace is impacting the prevention of injury and illness to workers. What are the occupational safety and health implications of a more technologically advanced workplace? Is the workplace safer or more dangerous? Are the occupational safety and health risks similar or different? How are occupational safety and health professionals impacted?
REQUIRED READING:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9835&page=125
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG164.sum.pdf
Automation of the workplace has changed, and continues to change, how work is done. The introduction of automated processes that involve computers and robots has changed the environment of the modern workplace.
Some of the potential impacts on the workplace are:
? Reducing the amount of physical labor required by some workers,
? Increasing the amount of cognitive work required of some workers,
? Increasing the span of control (increased # of employees) of managers,
? Decreasing the need for traditional blue collar workers
These likely outcomes of automation can result in a marked increase in the amount of stress experienced by many employees. Work stress is a complex dynamic involving physiological, psychological, and social factors. People become stressed when there is a perceived imbalance between the demands placed on them and their ability to respond. Automation appears to be increasing the instances for some employees in which such an imbalance occurs.
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