Psychosocial risk factors in the academic staff and the importance of occupational health safety trai̇ni̇ng

There are many risk factors in working life. Each of these risks threatens the quality of work and private life of the labor factor. Therefore, it is very important to identify and eliminate these risks. However, it is quite difficult to identify psychosocial risks from work life-threatening risks. Many psychosocial risks are considered normal for employees in the course of their working life and are not considered as a risk. Therefore, it is not possible to make an effort to eliminate the risks. The first thing to be done to eliminate psychosocial risks is to identify the risks. Through risk identification, employees become aware of psychosocial risks and discover potential harm. Then, it is possible to carry out the necessary studies to eliminate the risks. In this study, academicians were selected as the occupational group that can be considered as the highest risk group in terms of psychosocial risk factors. From the beginning, the profession of academician is a very demanding profession. Although it is in a very low risk group in terms of physiological risks, it has a high rate of risk in terms of psychosocial risks. In order to measure the psychosocial risk factors seen in academicians, a questionnaire was applied to academicians working in universities in Mersin. The questionnaire was adapted to the Turkish version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Risk Assessment Scale. In this way, qualitative and quantitative analysis of psychosocial risk factors among academicians has been carried out.