Psychosocial Risk Factors In Call Centres

Download or read book Psychosocial Risk Factors in Call Centres written by Christine A. Sprigg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Report (RR) is the third product from the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) Call Centre studies. The first product of the HSL research was HELA Local Authority Circular (LAC 94/1) published in November 1999. The LAC reported the findings of HSL's exploratory and qualitative (interview and discussion-based) research on call centres. The second product of HSL's call centre research was a significantly revised and updated version of the HELA Local Authority Circular (LAC 94/1 (rev)), which was published in December 2001. In this RR, we report findings from the larger scale quantitative (questionnaire-based) study. as a call handler more stressful than working in other jobs?; 2. Is working as a call handler equally stressful for everyone who works as one?; 3. What is it that makes working as a call handler stressful?; and 4. What can be done to reduce the psychosocial risks associated with working as a call handler? Future research papers and articles in practitioner publications will report further results and conclusions from this research.