Stigma In The Workplace

The goals and objectives of the program is promoting organization’s awareness program to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness in the workplace
According to the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (2017), Stigma is a personal attitude and belief that negatively labels individual or a group of people, such as those with mental illness. It occurs because of stereotypes or negative perceptions, prejudice and discrimination (negative emotional reaction and behavior response to prejudice), and frequently associated with mental health conditions. There are many kinds of stigma but this announcement most concerned to promote awareness program reduce the with stigma about stress-related mental health issues in the workplace.

However, in addition to organization culture factors in the workplace, there are many causes of stress at work that may cause stress, such as
• Feelings of pressure
• Fear of injury or illness
• Management style and communication patterns
• Lack of control of job tasks, workload and deadlines
• Lack of training for a new job or task, and job change
• Lack of time to do work and family exposed to work-related hazards
• Lack of trust and lack of systems in workplace available to respond to concerns
• Working with difficult clients or colleagues and role or responsibility conflicts, etc. (CCOHS, 2017)
The Symptoms of stress: - There are many different symptoms and signs of stress, For example:
• Physical symptoms such as: - headaches, chest pain, shortness of breath, high blood pressure, insomnia, frequent illness, and others.
• Psychosocial symptoms are an anxiety, sadness, anger, depression, hopelessness,

Workplace stress is the harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the employee and the amount of control an employee has over meeting these demands (CCOHS, 2017).
Employer should address potential psychosocial hazards must maintain comprehensive workplace health and safety program and continue to improve the process for his organization, including Leading, Planning or organizing, implement, evaluate, action of improvement, and to promoting the organization should have also the following steps.
• Identify existing potential hazards in the work site
• Prepare a written and dated hazard assessment
• Review hazard assessments periodically and when changes occur to the task, equipment or work environment.
• Take measures to eliminate or control identified hazards.
• Involve workers in the hazard assessment and control process.
• Make sure workers and contractors are informed of the hazards and the methods used to eliminate or control the hazards.
• to influence policy-makers of the organization, increase support and